The Monday 2004-02-02 at 10:21 -0800, dreadnought wrote:
I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it.
I can only talk from the user side of MS Exchange (NT4). We had 1200 staff here, all with accounts, but not everybody had computers, perhaps 800. It was very slow even on the intranet, and we had two server sites. The administrators said it scaled badly. For remote access (V90 modem) it was a real pain: even with a local copy of the mailbox it insisted on downloading again before editing an email; the trick was to connect, synchronize, disconnect, read/write email, and connect. And things were made worse because every body sent big emails with lot of files. A few "fortunate" were able to convince somebody high up, and had normal imap accounts instead: even on remote use it was fast. I don't know if this has improved on newer versions. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson