Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:34:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Wayne Pascoe" <freebsd@molemanarmy.com>, "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <003101c16cd6$5cf5d360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <86r8r3f2ue.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wayne Pascoe >Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:16 AM >To: Toomas Aas >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange > > >"Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> writes: > >> Hi Wayne! >> >> On 12 Nov 01 at 23:06 you wrote: >> >> > If however, they are using it for shared calendaring or the calendar >> > and mail client integration, be careful. I don't know of any >> > applications on Unix platforms that provide this kind of 'groupware'. >> > >> > If anyone has any information to contradict this, I'd be interested to >> > hear it. I'd love to be able to punt a decent alternative to Exchange. >> >> The guys at http://www.horde.org/ are working on a sort of >> web-based groupware suite which is written entirely in PHP. I >> haven't tried out the entire suite - I'm only using the e-mail part >> - but from what I've heard the latest version is quite usable. > >Granted, it might be usable. But then you face an even bigger >challenge than just moving everyone to a different server >platform. You have to convince your company to change the way people >use mail. > >In a 300+ person organisation, no sane director wil ever pick this >option. Loss of productivity and retraining costs would be through the >roof! > Correct - but they would consider option #3 - which is to simply NOT upgrade from Exchange 5.5 I fail to see the difference to Microsoft's bottom line between everyone switching to FreeBSD mailservers, or everyone simply NOT upgrading their existing Exchange Server. If your a Microsoft shop, and you want to strike a blow to the Evil Empire, then simply DON'T upgrade. It will save you lots of money, lots of time, and if you need more server power then just get a new hardware platform and put your old licenses on it. Plus, you already know about the OLD bugs, why exchange them for a set of NEW ones? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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