What will I gain/lose by moving from Expression Media to Lightroom

I've been using Microsoft products in general for years, and in the context of what I'm asking here, the Expression suite since Version 1. Expression Design doesn't come anywhere near Photoshop CS5, which I've just bought, but as well as an editing program I need a decent asset management product. At the moment I use Expression Media mainly to catalog my photographs, but also use the HTML export function to create quick slide shows for the web. Microsoft has not updated Media since version 2 (not that that is a problem in itself) but has also sold it to Phase One, who haven't yet said what they will do with it.
My questions are, will Lightroom provide the same or better functionality as Media did as an asset management tool (since Adobe at least seem to be continuing to develop the program), and what else will I gain from it. At £200 it's not a huge investment, but I wouldn't like to think I may be spending it for no real advantage.
Thanks, from an enthusiastic amateur photograper.

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The QCC wrote:
Lightroom is first and foremost a media manager.
I suspect many would have reservations about this. Lightroom is a very limited media asset manager. I do not think this is a design goal for the application. It is designed to manage raw files from supported cameras and some other files - jpg, psd and tiff - and track videos taken with the camera - that's about it.
Many would argue most of the development energy has gone into the dev module.
Another thing to consider is performance. Because LR is attempting to faithfully reproduce the image as per edits to the dev module it builds and updates a large preview library which has performance and disk space implications.
As suggested, try before you buy.

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On 7/29/2010 10:26 AM, brestt wrote:
>
> We are migrating to ZENworks 10. We are almost finished, but there are
> a handful of workstations that have not got the update, due to
> individual computer issues or laptops that aren't plugged in
> frequently.
>
> The E directory administrators would like to uninstall/remove ZENworks
> 7 from the directory.
>
> We are using Group policies, DLU, and some NAL objects.
>
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> accounts on the local computer. But once they update their edir
> password it won't sync. Which is OK, because they'll call the helpdesk
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>
> Big question, what will happen to the group policies? Will they
> continue to work locally off a cache or will they cease to work all
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