From: Ken Schaefer > And TBH 350 users is not an enterprise, it's a small/medium business. > Somewhere at 10K+ seats are you starting to look at "enterprise", depending > on industry/technology
I'd argue that there are several levels of "Enterprise-ness". I agree that having 350 users is not the same as having 10K users, but I'd likely have more help/training/pay in that case. > You might not need those features, or know what they are, but that doesn't > mean > that they aren't useful to other people. You are absolutely correct. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:00:12 -0700 Subject: RE: Hyjack - Linux in the Enterprise/Schools (was RE: Sophisticated Phising attempt?) > Just responding to a few posts concurrently: > I can't comment about schools, but enterprises need a lot more than what is > listed below. > Pretty much everything needs to be able to be automated. > And TBH 350 users is not an enterprise, it's a small/medium business. > Somewhere at 10K+ seats are you starting to look at "enterprise", depending > on industry/technology > > In terms of Exchange vs Kerio: Kerio's a mailserver. Outlook+Exchange is a > lot more than that, and offers a lot more features than Kerio does. You > might not need those features, or know what they are, but that doesn't mean > that they aren't useful to other people. There probably isn't a single large > organisation in the world that doesn't run on Notes/Exchange/Groupwise or > similar enterprise messaging/collaboration platform. > > Cheers > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012 2:05 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Hyjack - Linux in the Enterprise/Schools (was RE: Sophisticated > Phising attempt?) > > > There are still some fairly basic hurdles that Linux needs to get over in > order to make it in Enterprise/Schools: > > 1. Centralized management improvements: My boss wants everything to be > point-and-click, so no CLI options would work here. If it can't be done in a > GUI, she won't go for it... because what if I leave and nobody else knows > how to fix things? And how do you deploy a printer to a lab? What about > updating Firefox in an entire school? Thus far, Webmin might be the best > current solution to this problem, but I can't webmin 20 computers at the > same time as far as I know. > > 2. Network home folders: Everybody loves that their documents are > automatically saved to the server... and we like not having to backup 1000+ > desktops. Getting this to work in Linux is no cakewalk. Just getting Linux > to login using a network LDAP server is difficult (Redhat's 'authconfig' > utility is an exception, but still no network home folders). > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
