Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:55:43 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKENIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <906778535.20050320192530@wanadoo.fr>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Duo writes: > > > When and if another product that is superior comes along, people may > well move to it. As far as I know, however, nobody is trying > to compete > with Exchange. It would be a billion-dollar undertaking with very > high risk, and the market potential just doesn't justify that sort of > adventure. > That isn't why they are trying to copy Exchange. They aren't trying to copy Exchange because Exchange is a terrible architecture. By contrast there are a number of companies who are selling messaging systems/groupware systems that have even more features than Exchange, (like Lotus Notes) and there are a lot of companies producing mail software that uses the architecture of "do a few things very well instead of a lot of thins poorly" ie" the Small is Beautiful philosophy that UNIX came from. Exchange does not do everything that a much more extensive product does, nor is it small enough to be lightweight and fast. So it really has the worst of both worlds and none of the advantages of either of them. > > My attitude is that of a longtime IT professional who has grown out of > petty schoolyard crushes and hate campaigns. I run whatever does the > job best. I don't care who wrote it. I recommend what I > consider to be > objectively best. > IT is one of those fields that is large enough so that people still have more than enough to do if they specialize. And it is a truism that a specialist knows their area far better than a generalist, even though they know everyone else's area far worse than the generalist. You are claiming yourself to be knowledgeable enough to run anything. That's a generalist approach. If you are a true generalist then you couldn't possibly know mail systems well enough to make an informed comparison of Exchange and any UNIX equivalents. And if you aren't a generalist, then your a specialist and therefore in your sphere of expertise you should know much, but in any other area you aren't going to know anything. And based on what you have posted so far your sphere of expertise isn't mail systems. Ted
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