APM questions, server sizing + SQL cals

Hi All,

I have a few questions for those of you who are working and have hands-on experience with APM.
- First, In your opinion, is APM is worth the price,investment and efforts for a small business ?

- Also, what recommendations would you give for server hardware besides Altec minimum system requirements, any specific things to pay atttention to ? Our consultants are telling us that any old server lying around would do the job, but I'm reluctant to go this way.

- As for the SQL server, apparently SQL express is not supported anymore, so how many sql CALs would I need ? Only one as this is the application that is connected to the database, right ?

thanks
Christian