From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 25 14: 6:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CF814D54 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02279; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:06:16 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:06:16 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Stephen McKay Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need anti-exchange ammunition In-Reply-To: <199910250357.NAA03173@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: > So, I'm looking for as much anti exchange ammunition as I can find. I'm > interested, of course, in technical stuff, but even more interested in > war stories of managers getting fired for breaking the mail system. And > it can't hurt to be directed to sites that describe how to build an > exchange replacement from open source tools, just to scare them with. Hmm. If you have a sizeable amount of users (ie 40+ users) Exchange tends to gets its knickers in a twist approx every 1.5 months. At which time you have to *REINSTALL* the software + patches; that's what I seem to observe with a friend handling MS Support for a company here in Auckland. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | When all else fails, RTFM ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message