Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:36:58 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <372015099.20050320083658@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1795.24.98.86.57.1111292119.squirrel@24.98.86.57> References: <423AD243.5030601@myunix.net> <423BEAD4.6040207@myunix.net> <245622616.20050319101955@wanadoo.fr> <423C1ACF.1050102@myunix.net> <1766695713.20050319222202@wanadoo.fr> <1111279870.650.11.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <1795.24.98.86.57.1111292119.squirrel@24.98.86.57>
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Jerry Bell writes: > I'll second that the calendar/email functionality has become a utility > service in many organizations. Exchange/outlook, for all their > shortcomings, have really changed the way companies work. They get spoiled. I suppose there's no harm in that intrinsically, but it does tend to lock them into proprietary solutions (which isn't necessarily good or bad). > Now, we are fortunate that we have several really good > windows/exchange guys to keep things humming, but it is clear that the > business demands of calendaring and email are outstripping the ability > of MS to deliver. We, along with many other organizations, are really > looking at ways to achieve 99.999% uptime on exchange, but we're realy > kidding ourselves. Something like communigate pro, that can be > clustered and run on a non-windows OS could move us closer to the > mark, but still not really there. The OS' and apps just aren't meant > for that type of availability yet. There isn't any solution that will provide that kind of uptime today. Application systems that provide the functionality your users want are not sufficiently evolved or reliable to achieve utility-grade service. And since all of them are the work of companies that have spent most of their existence writing for PCs, I don't expect this goal to be reached any time soon. Nevertheless, Exchange is at the top of the list in this respect. It would be nice to have better, but this is the best available. -- Anthony
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