Snow Leopard Server or not?

Hello,
I am a scientist working in an anti-mac university (like many of you I guess...). I have several laboratory room where graduate students do all kind of analyses. I just received a big grant and I would like to buy several Macs for my team member, including myself. I would like to have one main Mac where all our data are located, where students and myself could access and share different files. The university obviously have a file server, but Mac user don't have access to it (and quite frankly I don't care about it). We already have a mail server (this one we have access), so I don't need the mail server option in Snow Leopard Server, but iCal server would be nice... Anyway, should I buy a Mac mini Server edition (and several iMac) or is this overkill for my need, and a simple Mac mini (or iMac) with sharing turn on would be suffisant?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: plierouge

For iCal server you'll need Snow Leopard Server. File serving can be done with any Mac, as you said, just turn sharing on. You can even tell it to share via FTP and SMB, so Windows users also have access.
I don't know what kind of work you do, but with Server, you'll also get xGrid. This would allow you to make a small computing-cluster of all the Macs.
Luckily, my university (I'm still a grad student, though) isn't anti-Mac. There is even a room with some iMacs for students to use.

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