On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> >> One thing Sun could assemble, fairly readily, would be a killer >> large-enterprise messaging solution. A far more scalable back-end >> server than Exchange, coupled via an instant-push-delivery protocol >> to >> a premium-grade client app. This would not actually be hard to do, >> but >> nobody's ever done it. > > Well, Larry&Co better get cracking on it, because this is exactly the > market that has Google's giant glowing red laser sight dot on it. > > They're pushing hard into the enterprise messaging market with Gmail/ > Calendar/Apps, etc....we're looking at them for the University email > and calendaring stuff. It's going to be approximately a third of the > cost of just licensing and machinery to run a campus-wide Exchange > server, and this offloads a whole lot of support costs as well, not to > mention things like Google paying the electric bill :-) > > (we're talking 40K accounts between students, faculty and staff, not > an insignificant population) U dot! :P -sam formally [email protected] ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
