From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 1:36:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B279E37B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 163wSl-0003cN-01; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:36:07 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 163wR2-0000Do-00; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:34:20 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange References: <003101c16cd6$5cf5d360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Date: 14 Nov 2001 09:34:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: <003101c16cd6$5cf5d360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: <868zd93dd0.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Ted Mittelstaedt" 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. -- - Wayne Pascoe | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; freebsd@molemanarmy.com | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. http://www.molemanarmy.com | - Yeats | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message