I've got a client who has taken the red pill and is going down the Mac rabbit hole. He's giving away all of his PC equipment both at home and at his office and replacing it with Apple hardware.
Over the last 10 years I had set up Linux servers with automated off-site nightly storage of all data, Windows XP workstations, etc. All the standard office stuff...networked of course...fully functional. He's just totally wacked about the iPad and has a large amount of cash to burn. Oh, and then that red pill... Yeah, nuts. Anyway, he's now asking me, his former IT person, whether to "go Exchange or Cloud" for all of his email, contact, and scheduling. Trust me, the question and terms are not coming from him, but from some propeller head at the Mac Store. (My apologies to any resident Apple fans.) Exchange I'm familiar with. Requires MSoft Windows Server 2008 or so, purchase # of seats over 5, etc. etc. etc. Anyone care to enlighten me as to what i-Mac-diots mean by "cloud" in the context of email? I mean, hey, I'm hip...I know that "the cloud" is a euphimism for Internet storage of data and, possibly, applications. Heck, one of my projects this year is to begin backing up clients to Amazon's S3 cloud. But what, would you guess, does a Mac salesperson mean by "cloud"??? Thanks. Mike PS. I'll give the saleperson credit...he knows how to push buttons and ring up a fat sale! _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
