On Apr 21, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Garfield WTF wrote: > From what I heard, the whole myemail.my email platform is actually just point > the MX record to the domains.live.com. > > And they just develop the interface and connect to the domains.live.com API, > and just hosting their own made web UI for us to check email. > > In order word, we can just use our myemail.my account and login in live.com, > without the need of the GUI Tricube is hosting. > > By the way, you may download the SDK, as long as you have account at the > domains.live.com. > > 50 million for that... haih...
Hi, On the surface, of course it looks simple. But designing a system that can scale to millions of users cost money, a lot of them. It's getting to that point where scaling/cost ratio literally plateaus that makes the upfront seems so undesirable. I think that using Microsoft's cloud infrastructure cuts down the know how of building a scalable system. Not by much but will make sense financially. We all can argue till the cows come home on the validity of an OSS-based solution but in Malaysia at least, aside from Skali, who else have the will and the financial wherewithal to make this sort of infrastructure possible for the critical mass? Let's not kid ourselves, building a high-scale infrastructure costs money. RM 50 million over a 10-year period (as per Tricubes CEO statement) is actually quite reasonable CAPEX/OPEX assuming that's what he meant. Having stated the above, I still believe that as citizen, this project is as bullshit a proposal as one can get. Remember when LHDN requires a digicert key to conduct E-Filing back in the days? Eventually it costs so much hassle for everyone, they scrapped it and just use plain SSL key exchange. Now an e-mail system that actually requires the same thing? Makes sense if you're in a controlled environment such as a company. But for the masses? Well, goes to say that idiots never learn. But as I said earlier, you get to make money by prolonging the problem mah! Happy ending for some. That's all that matters when all is said and done. ihsan -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
