[SunRescue] When is an exchange not an exchange? WAS:pass the crack pipe

[Brian Dunbar]

I'd looked at OpenMail for a still-born startup last year, and liked what I
saw.  But here I'm a regional sys admin for a much larger company .. mostly
free to do what I need, but Exchange is the de facto standard company wide,
and I don't want to introduce too much of a gulf 'tween us.

I have worked at a place that had OpenMail on a HP9000 - it supported nearly
5000 end-users across the country, and other OpenMail boxes in Europe
supported at least as many world wide.  It only had one problem, the mail
admin left for greener pastures and no one understood, or cared to
understand exactly what he had done to keep the mail server functional -
soon after he left the system crashed, often, mail was lost, often, backups
stopped working etc.

I head a senior VP (not of info systems) say to a collegue after the worst
crash that "moving to Exchange would fix all of those problems".  Sigh.

brian

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff borisch [mailto:jeff at sonicrim.com]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:16 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] When is an exchange not an exchange? WAS:pass the
crack pipe


Brian Dunbar wrote:

> I've been considering (after we move offices this month to larger
quarters)
> getting an eval copy of their outlook/exchange replacement - more details?
> I'd been under the assumption that the exchange bit ran on unix, only...
the
> last thing I need here is another NT box GPFing for no good reason
> 

Have you looked at HP's openmail as an exchange replacement? HP had a deal
where a 50 user license was free. I don't know if this would help you here,
but it is worth knowing about. We looked at it, but not having any outlook
expertise we weren't able to do much to it. We did get it running under
linux on x86.

best,
jeffrey 

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