blogs.zdnet.com — A new Yankee Group report says that ominously for Microsoft, 23% of respondents to a survey said they intend to migrate away from Exchange Server and switch to an alternative Linux or open source Email and messaging distribution platform over the next 12 to 18 months. Good news for companies like Scalix and Zimbra.
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count_zMar 24, 2007
I'd like to know who or how they surveyed, because 23% sounds like a BS number to me. I'd be one thing if they didn't ALREADY have Exchange in place (because the license costs are one-time), because then they could say that they're saving money by going with another solution... but if they're already using Exchange how are they going to save a significant amount of money by switching to an OSS email system?Exchange is probably Microsoft's best product and Exchange 2003 and 2007 are rediculously easy to administer.Switching to a new system means migrating the mailboxes, you lose AD integration, and there's also the matter of buying the software and support. A business would be nuts to use the Community Edition of Zimba (no online backup, no Outlook MAPI support, and no tech support among other things)... and it costs $28 per mailbox per year. So if you have 200 mailboxes you have to pay $5600 per year. Exchange Standard costs $700 US and the CALs are $67 (but you don't need to pay for them each year).
darcyMar 24, 2007
Yeah, because open source zealots would never digg down a pro Microsoft comment.
trubbleshuteMar 25, 2007
SBS is pretty much idiot proof, it's everything on a single box so it's pretty awesome-- but it carries a heavy price tag.
sirhomerMar 25, 2007
Zimbra is frecken easy to install too.
meshmanMar 25, 2007
"Any Exchange users out there looking to make the switch? If so, what e-mail servers are you considering?"Thanks for the suggestions (none) but from what I'm reading here, there is no alternative. I'm dying for one. Where's Apple btw? They should have had a product like this for OSX when it came out.
immrlizardMar 25, 2007
We tested lotus notes and a couple other full systems and found that exchange was the easiest to implement in the environment we are running. Notes was a nightmare and really difficult to get going. Once it was up it wasn't bad, but it had too much overhead for us to use it. As much of a fan of OS I have become, MS is fairly secure with their mail system for at least the near future. As long as they keep making it easier and easier to install, upgrade and maintain they will have a place. We are currently getting ready to go to exchange 2007 from 2003. Each new version has got easier to set up and added more functionality. I still think that the OS mail clients are great and will only get better.
bongchitisMar 26, 2007
zimbra also astroturfs.
bongchitisMar 26, 2007
You are so full of g-d-da--ned sh-t you piece of sh-t ms astroturfer!
bongchitisMar 26, 2007
Novell NetMail is an ISP-grade E-Mail package by Novell, Inc. It is designed to deliver scalable messaging and calendaring services, using Internet-standard protocols (e.g. IMAP, iCalendar, POP, SMTP),Novell NetMails open-source progeny, the hula project, is the future. The architects for the hula project were inspired by google's calendar and gmail.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_project">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_project</a>
livesterMay 20, 2007
Impossible! Things never change.
simpleaputMay 31, 2009
Zimbra supports BES native Blackberry sync now, I've been using it since January with one of their hosting partners, <a class="user" href="http://www.01.com">http://www.01.com</a> . Check out their official support: <a class="user" href="http://www.zimbra.com/products/mobile_blackberry.html">http://www.zimbra.com/products/mobile_blackberry.h ...</a>