Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:28:35 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Calendar Solution? Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEGNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080226181902.GA75999@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Roland Smith > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:19 AM > To: B. Cook > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Calendar Solution? > > > > I am trying to get them on the idea of an OSX server.. > > > > They are using words like 'Exchange' and 'Externally Hosted Exchange' > > servers.. > > (just sends a chill down my spine.. ) > > As long as someone else is doing the feeding & caring of the exchange > server... :-) Expensive, though. > The other problem is that after a period of time you will find the employees using the mail system to share files, rather than using your carefully setup shared directories off the main fileserver. That is when your performance of an externally hosted exchange server will take a dump. My employer hosts exchange servers for customers. Take my advice, the only way it really works is to get a T1 from the hosting company to the remote office, and get rid of all servers at the remote office and put Microsoft Terminal Server client on all the machines and run a big terminal server at the hoster, in conjunction with an exchange server. Any other way and the performance will stink and the connection will be unreliable, and the employees will bitch. Naturally, hosters like us absolutely love people who come in thinking they will have us externally host an exchange server for them. We will start them on the server then over time rope them into moving all their business-critical IT functions to us. It's very profitable. Arguably though, any customer dumb enough to think that they can just get a hoster to "externally host" an Exchange server, is too incompetent to be trusted to properly care for their own data, anyway, and in the long run is better off just paying an outsourcer like us to do it. Ted
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