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Mike Jeays wrote:
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> Basically, if you have to hold your nose to run Exchange, you may as
> well hold it a little tighter and run Windows.  If not, look at
> FreeBSD/Sendmail-or-Postfix/Evolution as a very reliable mail service.

Indeed. Anyway, if you're running VMWare with Windows inside it, you 
*are* running Windows, are you not? You're just not dedicating your 
hardware to it. For a monster like Exchange, I'd probably want to 
dedicate hardware (just my prefs -- unruly beasts should be isolated).

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