Date: 14 Nov 2001 09:34:19 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <868zd93dd0.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c16cd6$5cf5d360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <003101c16cd6$5cf5d360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes:
> >Granted, it might be usable. But then you face an even bigger
> >challenge than just moving everyone to a different server
> >platform. You have to convince your company to change the way people
> >use mail.
> >
> >In a 300+ person organisation, no sane director wil ever pick this
> >option. Loss of productivity and retraining costs would be through the
> >roof!
>
> Correct - but they would consider option #3 - which is to simply NOT
> upgrade from Exchange 5.5
That is one option. BUT and here is the big but. Microsoft tend to
drop support for things after I think 2 releases. So if you don't
upgrade, you don't get support, patches, etc. Its a neat trick :)
> If your a Microsoft shop, and you want to strike a blow to the Evil
> Empire, then simply DON'T upgrade. It will save you lots of money,
> lots of time, and if you need more server power then just get a new
> hardware platform and put your old licenses on it. Plus, you already
> know about the OLD bugs, why exchange them for a set of NEW ones?
Fortunately my department are completely FreeBSD based. However our IT
department are an MS shop. We have a much happier life than them.
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- Wayne Pascoe
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