From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 7:51: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAED737B418 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:50:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fAEFopR00511; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Wayne Pascoe" Cc: Subject: RE: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:50:47 -0800 Message-ID: <000501c16d24$20461a80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <868zd93dd0.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wayne Pascoe >Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:34 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange > > >> >> 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 :) > Oh, not the support FUD again. For starters Microsoft support costs a lot of money to maintain. But most importantly it's worthless. At prior employers that have had MS support contracts I have used their support for knotty problems and I can report that they are neither timely nor helpful. In short the support is not worth what you have to pay for it. If you present Microsoft support with problems that aren't already answered in the manual what happens is they will request dump after dump after dump and eventually a few weeks later after you have already scratched the installation and gone and done something else, they will report back that their engineers cannot determine what the problem is. I suppose that someone could set up the same mechanism for FreeBSD and then we too can claim that we offer "support" but I don't know of any FreeBSD people that are this unethical Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message