Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 19:17:38 PDT 2005

Just for the record and then I'll stop hammering the list here with 
Mirapoint plugs... I'm happy to offer an additional discount to any 
deals that comes my way from BayLisa members.

Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>  
>>
>
> 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Ask for a BayLISA member discount!  :-)  (Joking, but only in part.)
>>  
>>
>
> 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.
>>  
>>
>>
>> Whatever became of Ximian Evolution?
>>  
>>
>
>
>

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