On Thu, September 20, 2007 9:00 am, rbw wrote: > http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/09/19/microsoft-office-software-tech-cx_rr_0919ibm.html > (It almost looks like there was something that > was supposed to come after the word "requirements") > > Discussing "adequate archiving", "legal demands" > and especially *"guarantee"* in the same > sentence as "security requirements" in any > argument that even implies that the level that > M$ is at can't "easily" be reached seems to me > to be absurd.
The "guarantee" is probably a legal guarantee in the "If you use our product to do document management, we guarantee that it meets the requirements as laid out in paragraph 4, subsection B, of some obscure Federal records management law that you've never heard of". There are dozens of programs that integrate with Exchange, Sharepoint, etc that feature automatic archiving, automatic scheduled deletion, encryption and the like. A lot of them are turnkey, in that you install them, point them at your Exchange server and can be reasonably compliant with the appropriate laws. Doing the same for a large generic mail system would probably require rolling your own or contracting consultants. -ajb -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
