> I am a bit late to this thread, but if you are asked to implement what > you think is not the best solution (which I am sure most of have > experienced), I find that it helps if you can be clear of the > consequences of the decision. Many moons ago I was asked to migrate a > smaller company to an Exchange infrastructure and, while it was not my > recommendation, I was very clear with the CEO of what I would need > (several layers of antivirus which actually cost more than Exchange) > and > I estimated downtime from virus events. Because I was able to clearly > explain of the impact of his decision, we were probably the only IT > team > that was taken out to dinner when we only had 1.5 days of downtime > during the course of a year instead of having unhappy management :).
This is funny to me, because I have the exact opposite situation. ;-) Before going on - Ski - Why do you think exchange requires more layers of antivirus than another solution? Are you concerned about viruses infiltrating the server? And you believe an exchange server is more susceptible to viruses than something else? ... Back to my story ... I don't think 1.5 days of email downtime in a year is a very good track record ... I consult for many companies, and I've used Exchange at several companies now, and for the last 4-5 years, have had exactly one day of downtime at one company (caused by a catastrophic datacenter failure). At my most recent client, my CEO insisted against Exchange, while I advised him it would be our best solution. His decision was to use google, and my advice to him was that if we use google, we will have big problems with PDA sync, and big problems with calendaring. It's been 1.5 years on google now, and while the PDA sync hasn't been much of an issue (most of the interested parties use iPhone, which syncs fine to google) the calendar is basically a disaster. Checkboxes for settings that just have no effect ... reminders that don't occur ... or occur on the wrong day or at the wrong time ... invitations don't get delivered ... And a severe lack of a viable offline client, particularly for mac users. (Such as the CEO.) ;-) Ironically, just a few days ago, the CEO invited me to a meeting, and the invitation never came in, but the item was created silently on my calendar. There is radio-button selector under calendar preferences: "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" I have selected "No, only show invitations to which I have responded." I didn't know any such meeting existed until he called me and asked where I was. Sure enough, it's on my calendar, but I never knew about it. And a bunch of other complaints about google calendar, if anyone wants to hear them. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
