The difference between Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint?

I am trying to find out what advantages Sharepoint has over Exchange, it doesn't help that I don't know much about either. My business currently has Exchange and Server 2003 setup, and I'm trying to figure out if Microsoft Sharepoint would help at all.

The difference between Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint?microsoft

Well, SharePoint is not an email platform, so that is a big difference between the two. Both can share calendars and contacts, and both can share documents.

Exchange uses Outlook to deliver all of that to the desktop, but can use other clients (like a web-based system called Outlook Web Access) as well. What it is NOT good at is managing large amounts of documents and other files. Public Folders (which is how you share files in Exchange) are being phased out by Microsoft, and they have always been a secondary choice for sharing documents.

SharePoint is designed for knowledge collaboration - in other words sharing documents, wiki pages, shared calendars and contacts. It uses only a web-based interface, and isn't designed to synchronize with a desktop like Outlook is. Of course, as I said before, SharePoint is not an email system at all, so if you are looking for an email platform, SharePoint alone just isn't an option.

So each has some great strengths and weaknesses. Most larger organizations use both!