Kevin Anderson wrote: > As a Notify partner, I'll say that it does what it's supposed to. I'll > also point out that it is a RIM recommended solution, the same as BES. > I'll also say that funambol is a great solution in many cases. Read > that how you'd like. Notify has some issues. Sent Items being a big > one. They aren't replicated. It's a pig, and it requires a MS server > with MS SQL (MSDE is fine, but still). I have yet to sell it when it > has been demoed. >
I haven't seen Notify up close and personal, but I'm told there's a big "delete all" button in a very dangerous place in the UI. You're also the first person to say anything other than "Notify totally blows goats" in my experience. I guess you've acknowledged the weak points, though, so perhaps you're just a little nicer than most. > Notify doesn't support sx11 yet, and it has been a BIG problem for one > client (Hi Jon). This is especially true because they made no mention > of that until we had already done the 1-way upgrade to 11, and had been > encountering issues for several days. Finally, they dropped it on us. > It is a mess. > Yeah, that was truly sucky. > I'd honestly say > that when you talk about anything other than a small business, you can > choose from Scalix, Notes, Exchange, and Groupwise. That's the rub as far as I'm concerned. I don't remember what the stats are, but a really (really!) high percentage of businesses are small business and have no need for the advanced features of Exchange or Outlook. I think Gustin said that most solutions are overkill and they are indeed. I know it's a personal decision, but I prefer to service small businesses with tools that meet their requirements than try to convert big business with tools that don't provide 100% Exchange functionality or third-party support a la BES, etc. I still maintain that nobody needs "Full Exchange capability". Any business principal stating that is just advertising that he or she hasn't done any requirement drafting. Even M$ will tell you that a 80% of the users for any of their products only use %20 of the features. It's a different 20% for sure, but unlike personal preferences, feature use can be determined or mandated in a business environment. -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
