--On 3 July 2009 09:25:06 -0500 Gary Mills <mills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:02:35AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> >> I really don't know anyone, neither amongst home-based users nor >> corporate e-mail users, who truly believe they're better off with an >> MS-Exchange server handling their e-mail, especially if they've >> previously used a decent IMAP client connected to a Cyrus server. Most >> folks put up with it because they don't have any choice and that's >> because their IT guy got a good free game of golf or similar from the >> sales guy who sold him up the creek on using Exchange. > > There's pressure here too to move from Cyrus to Microsoft Exchange. > It seems to be coming from administrators rather than students. > > Is there someplace an unbiased comparison of the two? I see lots of > negative reports about Exchange, but they mostly come from people who > are using another product based on open standards. I was speaking to a friend who provides Exchange servers for small businesses locally. He says that the most important thing is to have a really good (fast, available and accurate) disaster recovery procedure, because you need it a lot. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
