Ian Eiloart wrote: > 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. > Here in Germany we have a bigger pressure. Microsoft offers university to "get Exchange for free for the whole campus at Microsoft's cloud", so they want to offer a complete outsourcing. Sure, they don't have any procedure how to get all data out of Exchange after this "for free" period but they get very aggressive, writing directory to the board of directors of the university. Whilst it is complete nonsense that an internet cut results in non-mail-connectivity between one office to the other (how dumb is that, to write to your room neighbour, you have to go to via a remote exchange cloud...). Things are getting hard. We believe in open standards, we want to have our mails and appointments in a system which is at every time perfectly changeable. We don't want a "data dead end" resulting in a complete dependency on one manufacturer. Zimbra is another show stopper here. Many want "Zimbra" because it is soo cool and blah blah blah. But with 14,000 accounts, our central LDAP infrastructure and the Solaris 10 servers with ZFS, running Cyrus IMAP, there is no really good reason to migrate all to Zimbra just to have CalDAV calendaring. Zimbra means endless redo logs, bad performance with many accounts, ... ... I don't like these "all in one solutions", but the people here LIKE THEIR OUTLOOK! Everybody wants to use Outlook and our students want Google, they like Gooooogle! Safe harbour for personal data? not interesting to this youth which even posts pictures of their drunk parties on facebook :-\ ---- 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
