Yep, but I have to admit that I look for vendors that not only hear but actively listen to the needs and wants I as a customer have. It's fine to hear feedback and say something like, "That's very interesting. Here, let me write that down and feed that back to.." but it's another to get an answer like, "You know, we thought somebody might want that, but to tell the truth we just couldn't find enough demand to make that something we'd do. We made a decision to leave that to a niche ISV." Or, "That is currently planned although we can't commit that it will be there. I understand what you need to be able to, but I need to know if there is enough demand to do that same thing in order to justify the time and testing in our product"
My reasoning is that nobody has a COTS product that does 100% of what I want it to do today or a year after I deploy it. I need to constantly be in contact and in the stream to be effective in this fast changing world of COTS and costs. Of course, it never hurts to say, "Great question. Here, let me get your address so I can mail this free golf shirt while I write that down" either ;) -ajm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems LOL. Now you can get more opinions Missy. :o) People like hearing from vendors, hey, tell me what you would like to see. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy Koslosky Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems Whoops. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Koslosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:03 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems Hey Deji, Read your post with interest. Don't know if you've heard or not, but I joined Quest Software as a product manager in their Exchange Solutions group earlier this year. Archive Manager, our archiving product, is my responsibility. This naturally means I'm always interested in competitive information, and on what people want to see that they're not seeing - what you love and hate. If you'd ever like to spill your guts (and I shan't quote you), I'd love to hear what you have to say. Hope all is well and that we'll get to see each other at the Summit -- or maybe even TechEd -- are you going to either? both? Best, Missy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems I can only speak to KVS, and I can not say what I think of them in such a decorous forum. If you do get to speak with them in the course of your evaluation (you are going to do a thorough eval, right?), be sure to ask them what happens if you run out of room on a vault and you want your users to clean out their items to make more room. Remember to ask what happens when you are doing hardware refresh and you need your users to move stuff from their offline vault on their old computers to their offline vault on their new computer. Remember to ask them about the "unique" behavior of the online vault when you need to replace the vault itself or when you want to add additional vaults and split your users across multiple vaults. I'm out of here. Sincerely, D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Carerros, Charles Sent: Fri 5/6/2005 12:03 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems My company is currently review some archiving apps and I was wondering if anyone has any news to share (good or bad on them) excusing my spelling if I get them wrong. KVS (from Veritas) Convault Legato Mail Extender\File Extender Thanks, Charlie List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
