See below: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc A. Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Beating the Microsoft Cost
Perhaps I have misunderstood what the $50 per month, per server charge is from our supplier/datacenter; the result is the same -- higher ongoing costs for the Microsoft Solution we currently have. My understanding is that the datacenter pays Microsoft under a special license of some kind, to be able to install/"resell" the OS on the leased servers, and that cost is passed on to us. Thanks for letting me know that there may not be such a cost between the datacenter and MS; I'll be sure to ask them about the details of it. I can post back my findings if you are interested. I think the bottom line situation is the same.... in our specific situation, the Microsoft solution is requiring us to have more robust hardware to do the same tasks, pay higher fees (though as mentioned, those may be fairly unjustified fees), and suffer from more vulnerabilities overall (patch, reboot, hear about vulnerability then wait for a patch with fingers crossed... etc.) -- all of which are costing us more money annually than a non-MS solution. =============== Reply If you must lease server space for your Imail server, there are much lower cost options for that hosting. That said, As a part of the migration to Open Source (Linux) there is a distribution of Postfix which can be simple configured as a incoming gateway for the Imail server, which will provide the anti-spam, anti-virus filtering, etc, all at no additional cost. The Postfix server then relays the filtered mail to the imail server whee your users sned and receive mail as usual. That is a direction I would suggest looking in before switching away from Imail and all its great features.. Doug ====================================== Our Anti-spam solution works!! http://www.clickdoug.com/mailfilter.cfm For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=1069 ====================================== To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
