On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 00:18 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > 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. Of course, and these were indeed taken into account in our case. Some people were unhappy, but when we said "OK, are you going to find the money to enable us to keep an in-house service?" they never seemed to have an answer. poc _______________________________________________ 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/L3OTLVZVCIJWSHYNVUEDOCBXDLLA6X25/
