On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Ariel Biener, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > > > > Also, if you're gonna be at Tech-Ed on Sunday, Microsoft Israel is > launching it's > > hosted exchange service, which gives you a full exchange server and > experience, > Oh good - all the points given against using Google web applications PLUS having the opportunity to use Lookout, get infected with viruses, and always worry that they will pull out another hotmail.co.il on you :) > That's the same comapny that just 3 months ago shut down Hotmail.co.il > with a week's notice, without a chance for the users to backup their > data or forward it to hotmail.com? > > > on their infrastructure, which in your case, might be more suitable than > maintaining > > the thing yourself (it most certanly be cheaper if you take into > consideration the > > interesting that they are finally leaving their "product" bastion and > trying the water of the services pond. Could it be Google Envy? Does > anyone know if Oracle ever managed to steal any customers with their > hosted mail solutions? I don't know how about you but as early as circa 2003 I became a bit familiar with the "hosted exchange server" market available in the US (the startup I worked for in Israel used a hosted exchange server in the US, the connection went up and down like a 2 cent whore, so the frustration saved from the network admin by not having to maintain it was replaced by the frustration of 15 users for not having a reliable Lookout connection (and Lookout, being a typical MS application, not coping with this very well)). For people who just have to use Exchange this might be a good go-between as managing a private exchange server can be indeed a major resource drain (with the caveat that the connection to it is reliable). > overall maintenance of a mail system: storage, backups, system > administration, > > upgrade path of hardware, maintenance contracts for hardware, etc etc). > I'm not sure you can save on these anyway - you'd want to backup e-mails even from your hosted solution, wouldn't you? And you'll have some sort of a shared file server anyway (which will require all of the above). All you save is the headache of having to figure out the right "click path" whenever you have to configure the damn thing, and understand the quirky MS network terminology. --Amos
