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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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