On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 20:49 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > 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?
This was back in the early 90's and we were very concerned about email borne viruses. Several other companies that the CEO knew of had much more downtime than we did (he was very happy when he could tell other CEO's that his mail server was still up while their server was down). I do agree that today, that much downtime is unacceptable, but back then I knew of several places that were essentially down for up to a week+ in a year. Today viruses are not nearly the problem as we have much better tools for dealing with them. As for gmail, we keep getting pushed to use it (and google docs) in my current job (K-12 school district) and we are very cautious about it. There are several areas in terms of regulatory compliance, legal compliance, and just the idea of not having control of the data on local servers that we are very wary of (of course many other school districts find that it does meet their needs so it really depends on how the school district interprets the rules :) ). cheers, ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services _______________________________________________ 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/
