Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 18:44:41 PDT 2005

Jim,

>>Scalix, Mirapoint, and Communigate are the best of breed.. Supposedly
>>Oracle's collaboration suite is
>>really good, but even with TCO considerations, Exchange is a fraction of
>>Oracle's cost.
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>Dude.  I just migrated a large university off of OCS and onto Mirapoint.
>(It's my job, but only after someone makes the decision.)  They hated OCS
>with a passion, and I don't think it was only the CIO and the Treasurer who
>did.  They didn't go into specifics.  In general, the CIOs _love_ Mirapoint
>and the sysadmins are slightly less enthusastic.  (It's a change.)  But I run
>a specialty email provider in my spare time and I get to sleep at night.
>That's worth a lot.
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I agree with you on Mirapoint. I'm only looking for a good 
justification, then I'm buying one
for my customer-base. For the low-end, it's relatively expensive, but I 
think will be mitigated
by a far lower total cost of ownership than the other exchange clones. 
I'd be happier if clustering
them was easier/cheaper.

>>We evaluated about
>>14 different exchange-clone solutions over the summer. Mirapoint is the
>>best of them, but a magnitute more
>>expensive than Scalix.
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>Ask for a BayLISA member discount!  :-)  (Joking, but only in part.)
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I've been talking for a while now about trying to create a buyer's club 
out of BayLisa.. If a dozen
sysadmins call up a vendor at the same time saying "Hey, I'm a member of 
BayLisa, all the other
BayLisa members are buying from you, I will too if the price was right" 
.... that could mean something.

>For the Thunderbird integration, there's always Sunbird.. but Sunbird is
>pretty worthless right now.
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>Whatever became of Ximian Evolution?
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>

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