There are people moving from hosted to in-house solutions as well.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? It is indeed more complicated than that, but it still was a large part of it. Email management and other IT functions are overhead, to be sure, but I think it's a grave mistake to put so much internal process into the hands of outsiders, for many reasons. Kurt On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 13:06, Michael B. Smith <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> wrote: > > well, i think that both you and i know that it wasn't really that simple (in > regards to the auto industry). > > insofar as pharma is concerned - if someone else can take a business > requirement and do it better, cheaper, faster than you can - i think you > should let them do it. > ________________________________________ > From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:02 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? > > 2009/6/25 Michael B. Smith <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> > > > > GSKs business is pharma (and I bet using that word will cause this email to > > be blocked by some people). They develop, pipeline, and market drugs. Not > > email. Not collaboration software. > > > > IT, other than IT that helps them develop, pipeline, and market drugs isn't > > their core competency. Let someone who does it well do it for them. > > That philosophy is what got the US auto industry in heaps of trouble. > "We design and assemble cars, we don't make car parts" is not a viable > business model. > > Kurt > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
