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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:15:54 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange
Message-ID:  <20011114171554.A4561@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <000501c16d24$20461a80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
References:  <868zd93dd0.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> <000501c16d24$20461a80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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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



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