You hit the nail on the head, my friend! I was hired on where I am to convert them to a more reliable Linux-based solution in almost all aspects of the company. In the meantime, I am stuck chasing issues from Microsoft based solutions. I barely have time to develop the new solutions due to all of it wasted on current faulty software. I don't know what I'm going to do with my time once I get everything converted.. it'll all 'just work'.. so lovely. :)
On Mon, December 19, 2005 07:54, Jason Meers wrote: > >>>box once a month or so, but those days are long gone. I really don't >>> know >>>what people do to their Windows boxes if they have to reboot them >>> "multiple >>>times a day". >> >> > > They run exchange, and the wonderfully designed and efficient > "store.exe" consumes all available RAM until the server stops responding > and kills exchange until it is rebooted. Given the choice of waiting for > the crash to happen during work hours, or setting scheduled a restart a > 7:00am every morning, we choose to FORCE a reboot every day to fix the > leaks. Since we started rebooting every day our crashes have stopped. > Re-booting every day is the ONLY way to keep exchange working at our > sites. > >> They patch them. * >> >> At least, from observing others, that seems to be standard >> practice (and it generally requires a reboot). Personally, I patch >> all the Linux systems each morning if there are things that need >> updating, during work time. No-one notices. >> >> Matthew >> >> * Admittedly not "multiple times a day", though. >> > Reboots don't have to be down to Exchange patches it's one big mess of > Active-Directory, IIS, JET and Windows itself. Installing a new version > of IE requires a reboot. Even plugging in a USB device can require a > reboot. > > All of my problems can be fixed by adding more memory, more processors > and usually by upgrading to the latest version. Quite often I find a > technet article that says "this is a known problem", "we know what > causes it", "we know how to fix it", "however we wont, upgrade to > version XYZ, we accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX..." > > Why should anyone be forced to buy a new product if the original product > is faulty and the manufacturer refuses to fix it (in order to increase > sales of new products) > > I don't think I have ever heard anyone say Exchange is a great product > (except sales people), I think users learn to love it and administrators > learn to hate it and just look for ways to throw more resources at it to > keep it up. > > Since replacing Exchange with Scalix a four man team has been able to > get back to some "real" IT work which helped us reduce IT costs in a > multi-million dollar company by 75% this year, isn't that what IT depts > should be doing instead of trying to keep buggy software together or > just constantly handing out the protection money for new versions. > > Jason > > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ > -- Steven McCoy Site Development/Manager IndigoRobot Services http://www.indigorobot.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/