The same thing could be said of IBM a number of years back. They were all about Big Iron and developing what they thought the customer wanted rather than what the customer really needed.
I still see that attitude in mainframe shops that drives me nuts. For a long while the mainframe was the only game in town. If you wanted an application written for your line of business or department you had to offer up a sacrifice to get it. With computing power moving to smaller and less expensive machines, that is a dangerous attitude to carry around. Now if a department wants to have x application or y functionality, you, as an IT person had better be able to step up and provide the service. If you can't, your customer will go outside your organization and get it themselves. I'm confused about one thing in the article though. Jeremy Burton talks about containing viruses better because they are all on one box doesn't make much sense to me. With MTA's I can sever the connection or a least ratchet down the allowable mail size to prevent spread. How do they propose to stop a virus when everyone is on the same server? While were on that subject, will there be antivirus products for the database? Or are we to rely on inbound/outbound scanning only? > -----Original Message----- > From: Dupler, Craig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:52 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Oracle to replace Exchange? Not! > > Interesting discussion. > > A couple of observations: Exchange and Notes are about something quite > different than Oracle and other similar messaging engines. What Ellison > calls e-mail, is not the same thing. The reasons that the mostly Unix > based > systems did not get the market that went the LAN server based systems was > the cost of entry for small installations, and the lack of critical > features > such as integration with the Windows desktop and a good group calendaring > solution. > > That much being said, Exchange and Notes are now incumbents. If they fail > to do the better job of supporting emerging requirements from other > platforms, then Exchange and Notes could also go away or become > marginalized. Right now, Exchange does not do the web as well as it > should, > and some parts of Microsoft still labor under the totally lame notion that > the new small devices are only companions to big PC's. Unix folks back in > the 80's used to look down their noses at the lowly PC and could not bring > themselves to stoop to be good service providers to them. Much of that > same > attitude is now being exhibited by the PC systems communities toward the > new > smaller devices. What goes around . . . > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:23 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Oracle to replace Exchange? Not! > > > "Ellison derided Microsoft's Exchange e-mail servers as unreliable and > insecure." > Huh? What?? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Doug Hampshire > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:17 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Oracle to replace Exchange? Not! > > > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20011113/tc/ellison_aims_for_microsoft_s_e > -mail_crown_1.html > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
