This one time, at band camp, Phil Scarratt wrote:

Places always say they want all this stuff and generally never use 
anything beyond email.

> - requirements are generally:
>       + email
>       + private and shared calendars

A lovely idea, nearly always implemented wrong so it doesn't work.  I 
worked at one place (one of Australia's most famous dot.bombs) where the 
clocks on all the computers were wrong by up to ten minutes and the 
computers were locked down so much individual users couldn't change 
their own clocks.  So you'd have people arriving to meetings over a 
period of twenty minutes.

I regularly get global emails at my current work saying that the 
resource-booking system is broken and to use bits of paper stuck to the 
doors of the meeting rooms instead.

>       + sync to PDA (typically a Windows one of course)

Who really ever does this?

>       + private and shared contacts

Yeah like this will ever be accurate or up-to-date.  I worked for a big 
corporate once who had an _amazing_ LDAP infrastructure.  You could 
build an Org chart from it.  Implemented in OpenLDAP.  Never seen a 
place with Exchange where there hasn't been something seriously wrong 
with the data.

>       + home folders available for download only

Not quite sure what this is and I've never seen it implemented in the 
real world in Exchange.

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