From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 04:15:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E08816A4CF for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:15:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stelesys.com (web1.stelesys.com [63.175.100.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC01943D49 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:15:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbell@stelesys.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=www.stelesys.com) by stelesys.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1DCrqR-000O8t-19; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:15:19 -0500 Received: from 24.98.86.57 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jbell@stelesys.com); by www.stelesys.com with HTTP; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:15:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1795.24.98.86.57.1111292119.squirrel@24.98.86.57> In-Reply-To: <1111279870.650.11.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <423AD243.5030601@myunix.net> <423BEAD4.6040207@myunix.net> <245622616.20050319101955@wanadoo.fr> <423C1ACF.1050102@myunix.net> <1766695713.20050319222202@wanadoo.fr> <1111279870.650.11.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:15:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Bell" To: "Mike Jeays" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:15:20 -0000 I'll second that the calendar/email functionality has become a utility service in many organizations. Exchange/outlook, for all their shortcomings, have really changed the way companies work. At my day job, we have 9 exchange servers around the world, with about 1500 mailboxes, so not a huge install, but in the past 5 years, calendaring, email and public folders have become a critical component of the business, and any bit of unavailability isn't tolerated. Now, we are fortunate that we have several really good windows/exchange guys to keep things humming, but it is clear that the business demands of calendaring and email are outstripping the ability of MS to deliver. We, along with many other organizations, are really looking at ways to achieve 99.999% uptime on exchange, but we're realy kidding ourselves. Something like communigate pro, that can be clustered and run on a non-windows OS could move us closer to the mark, but still not really there. The OS' and apps just aren't meant for that type of availability yet. Jerry > A definite career-limiting move. > > It is a major reason why we can't go to a fully open source desktop. > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >