Rick Stevens wrote: >> Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago), things >> like Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email >> systems did not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again? >> If we needed complete control of things or our email requirements... Patrick O'Callaghan: > I successfully lobbied my university board to switch to what is now > called G Suite, which is free for educational users. The main > motivation was economic: we simply couldn't afford to keep expanding > our server hardware infrastructure to carry the exploding load, but > more importantly the corporate salary structure didn't allow us to > pay competitive rates to admins. A large part of the decision are non-technical considerations. There's the obvious hardware and staffing costs. But you may also have legal considerations, such as: Are you required to keep your data in-house? Or if you don't have to, does an external host keep it in a country that's acceptable to you. Are you required to keep your data perpetually? And I'm sure there's a plethora of other non-tech considerations. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry! _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/ZE3ILACS6Q4TCTCA2FVAUSPDGZ7SGLZT/
