The support issue doesn't bother him? MS may have its various faults (perceived or otherwise) but at least they have a formal support organization. You can pay money to get resolution to any outages.
I have no idea about scalix, but is there an actual company to call for support when your server goes belly up at 3AM? Or can the entire enterprise messaging support plan be summarized as "let's hope some neckbeard takes a break from playing Everquest to look at rec.linux.scalix and see my question."? Is there an opportunity to go above this person's head? These are clearly not business reasons used in making this decision. His boss and peers might be interested... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jon Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:19 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Once again, religion. He also has his sights on dumping 2,000 Windows clients, and replacing our enterprise-wide Oracle database system (which we have been on for almost 20 years) with an open source version. It is, on one level, all very entertaining. Our customer information system (for 1,500,000 customers)? Port it to an open source application written by a guy in Spain with no customers and no one on board who speaks English. I kid you not. Jon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kimball, Kelly Posted At: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:11 AM Posted To: exch list Conversation: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Subject: RE: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Of all things MS to throw out, why on earth would it be Exchange, arguably one of the few things MS got right. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jon Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Why? Religion. He wants Exchange out of here. Added functionality is not the issue. System stability is not the issue. Money is not the issue. Exchange is bought and paid for. Scalix will cost $130,000 up front and $50,000 per year thereafter. He does not care. Not my call - the decision is coming from three levels of management up, and is not supported by the layers in between or me. In the end that will not matter. Finding some significant loss of end-user functionality might matter. We currently have 2,000 reasonably happy Outlook 2003 users. But if they are not really going to know the difference, it would appear to be a done deal. Jon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Scharff Posted At: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:36 AM Posted To: exch list Conversation: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Subject: RE: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? HP OpenMail? So they want to move away from bought and paid for Exchange to Scalix why? I understand they don't like Microsoft, what functionality do they think this new platform is going to get them? But choice is good, if they want to buy Scalix licenses and migrate I say go for it. If they decide to move back, I know a company which has migrated millions of seats from HP OpenMail/Samsung Contact/Scalix and would be happy to pick up the work. -- Chris Scharff Messaging Services Architect MessageOne 512.652.4500 EMS Email Continuity: Exchange may be down, but e-mail is still up. http://www.messageone.com/email-continuity/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jon Posted At: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:19 AM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Subject: Scalix: Any Glaring Problems?? Long time no post . . . We're under new management. New management hates MS and wants to convert our Exchange 2003 system to Scalix. (Scalix, for those who have not heard about it, is a sorta-open-source email/calendaring system that runs on Linux and allows Outlook to connect and maintain something close to full functionality.) So far in my research I have not found any glaring technical or functional reasons to fight this switch. Does anyone here have any experience with Scalix and/or know of any significant non-OS-religious reasons that Scalix is a bad idea? I am particularly interested in any known loss of user functionality running Outlook on Scalix. Many thanks . . . Jon _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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