Setting up bridge as photo database for a small company

My company is using a quite large collection of stock photos. Those photos are currently saved in appropiately named folders, however it's quite hard to find a specific type of photo this way. That's why we want to start using bridge for the management of our stock photos.
I searched the internet for tips on how to do it, however most of the threads are really old (we are using CS 5.1) or not very helpful.
That's why I hope the adobe community can give me some advice on how to set up bridge for a small company network (~20 people).
What we want to achieve:
Bridge uses the stock photo folder located on our server
All photos have tags, if someone changes a tag the other users also see the changed tag
If a new photo is added to the server, it shows up in the bridge of all users
Not everyone in the company is using macs -> everything should work cross-platform, also for the windows users
Not essential but would be pretty helpful: Since 90% of our photos are from iStock, a way to read the tags from iStock and insert them into our photos.
I know that there are other programs which are better suited for the management of photos, however we want to rely on an Adobe product for it and since Lightroom does not seem to be a good choice, we look forward to using Bridge.
Maybe someone else in here also uses bridge for the photo management in their company or knows how to set it up for a network. If so, I would be very grateful for an answer!

Curt
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