on 3/3/09 11:06 PM, Richard Chycoski said: > I won't comment on the cost effectiveness of this $$$$ solution (oops, > guess I just did!) - but with 'sufficient resources' ($ and cluefull > staff) it can be made to work. YMMV. :-)
Therein lies the problem. They don't see the 20M+ that is spent every year in getting Microsoft Educational licenses as part of the cost of Exchange, and even then they still have to pay closer to "normal" rates for software licenses, OS licenses, hardware, etc.... Nor does that account for the higher level of admin overhead, and the associated cost with that. Sure, if you want to pay 10x-100x for Exchange as you would with an open-source based solution (with commercial support, BTW), you can probably make it perform adequately -- with 3-10x as much hardware resources, 3-10x as much disk resources, at least 2-3x as much personnel resources, etc.... I don't think there is any amount of money they could spend on Exchange that would be considered "too much", because it's all "free" since we've got this mega-million dollar annual support contract that we don't have to account for as part of our budget. I don't think there is any level of education that Dilbert can do to upper management that would enlighten them about the true TCO of this solution. They simply won't ever hear anything negative that is ever said about Microsoft, even when the people saying it are the lead Microsoft engineers in the Windows group. There comes a point when Herr Hindenburg is going to build his hydrogen lifted airship wrapped in flammable fabric painted with highly flammable aluminum & iron oxide (e.g., rocket fuel) regardless of what anyone else anywhere else says, and damn the incendiary bombs! What do you do then? -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
