From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 8:26:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE70037B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1642rz-0004Y6-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:26:35 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 1B1ED10F3; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:15:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:15:54 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <20011114171554.A4561@raggedclown.net> References: <868zd93dd0.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> <000501c16d24$20461a80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c16d24$20461a80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:50:47AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----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... Long ago when one of my duties was supporting a small Windows based development group I was very glad that the CD-ROM had been invented. It made the bi-weekly installations so much less tiring than changing all those floppy disks... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message