Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 07:42:27 +0300 From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> To: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <C2524FC6-5575-4573-84A3-AA35768B0648@digsys.bg> In-Reply-To: <31DFBF41-37EC-43CF-A555-2D4E46F1F6E2@ee.ryerson.ca> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <20120601121555.GF5335@home.opsec.eu> <4FC8B67D.5090208@digsys.bg> <31DFBF41-37EC-43CF-A555-2D4E46F1F6E2@ee.ryerson.ca>
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On 02.06.2012, at 03:06, David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2012, at 08:33, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >=20 >> For example if one wants an e-mail server, that is better served in the l= ong run by IMAP+MTA than any form of Exchange, because you are not tied to o= ne single platform and that vendor's lunacy. Otherwise FreeBSD runs just fin= e as server for about any other OS client, provided those clients use standa= rd Internet protocols. >=20 > If all you want is e-mail, then there are certainly better options than Ex= change IMHO. However, once you get into calendars (private and shared, with d= elegation to secretaries, etc.), meeting rooms, ActiveSync (to remotely wipe= lost devices), then it's a whole different game. There are a lot of open source calendaring applications, of all kinds. Most r= un fine on FreeBSD. I really see no reason why your 'mail or calendaring server' should be able t= o wipe your devices.. This is the sort of bloat that keeps me away. =46rom M= icrosoft products. >=20 > E-mail was solved a long time ago, but Exchange does many things on top of= it that many organizations find very handy, and where there doesn't seem to= be a decent open alternative. >=20 Hope you are not of the opinion that first there was Exchange, then all othe= r e-mail servers appeared, "copying" it. History was exactly the other way a= round. We were using it long before Microsoft discovered this Internet thing= exists and first tried to kill it. Again it is not about open source. It is about non-proprietary protocols. Al= l proprietary platforms turn to be more expensive in every respect in a whil= e. In this regard I rather prefer the way Apple handles things. Shiny wrapper i= nterface to pretty much generic technology. No reinvention of the wheel and e= xperiments to see if it can be made square. Daniel=
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