This stinks! The irony, of course, is that any corporate or large customer looking for a real collaboration suite will certainly have Exchange as their first choice.
ICS is not exchange; it doesn't even come close; it might have been a nice little add-on (some shared calendaring, etc.) for IMail but as a true collaboration product I can't see any larger shop CIO/CTO gambling on this product from a relatively unknown company such as Ipswitch instead of Exchange. Exchange, expecially the 2003 version, is very capable, robust, and proven product with lots of features. Outlook Web Access, (with or without RPC over HTTP) just blows away Imail WebMail entirely. N.B. Exchange has per user licensing fees and there is no "unlimited" license. Pricing and complexity has been the primary reason for not choosing it - functionality, it is one of the best. Note to ISP's/Hosting companies: Exchange is available under Microsoft's SPLA (service provider license agreement) program. In a nutshell, this is a monthly software rental agreement where you pay only for what you use on a monthly basis. It removes the capital cost entirely as there is no up-front umpteen thousand dollar payment you truly pay per month. If 3 months later you have 500 less mailboxes, you pay that much less that month. It doesn't bring the price down for basic hosting - we can't offer webhosting for $10 or $15/month with Exchange mail (we would be losing a fortune) but it is within reach for corporate clients or outsourced exchange hosting. -- Worth a look. P.S. I don't want to make this personal, but didn't the new product manager at Ipswitch come from Lotus Notes? And we know how well they are doing now in the corporate market :-) 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/
