Perhaps I have misunderstood what the $50 per month, per server charge is from our supplier/datacenter; the result is the same -- higher ongoing costs for the Microsoft Solution we currently have. My understanding is that the datacenter pays Microsoft under a special license of some kind, to be able to install/"resell" the OS on the leased servers, and that cost is passed on to us. Thanks for letting me know that there may not be such a cost between the datacenter and MS; I'll be sure to ask them about the details of it. I can post back my findings if you are interested.
I think the bottom line situation is the same.... in our specific situation, the Microsoft solution is requiring us to have more robust hardware to do the same tasks, pay higher fees (though as mentioned, those may be fairly unjustified fees), and suffer from more vulnerabilities overall (patch, reboot, hear about vulnerability then wait for a patch with fingers crossed... etc.) -- all of which are costing us more money annually than a non-MS solution. I desperately don't want this to become a "who's better" war, I'm just hoping to get some advice regarding the main point of my initial post -- equivalent software to iMail in a non-windows environment, OR the ability to run iMail on Linux. I don't want to tweak anybody, and right after posting I realized I didn't mark the subject as Off-Topic, which it really should be. It would probably be best if anyone with advice contact me off-list about this one, though the answers may spark some good conversation on-list as well. Your choice :) Marc > -----Original Message----- > From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 2:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Beating the Microsoft Cost > > > > The move to Linux will save us a small fortune each year, > in not having to > follow > > Microsoft's ongoing licensing fees on leased machines. But > I love my > little iMail box... > > that's the only part that I'm going to miss. I suppose a related, > important question is, > > is it possible to somehow run iMail ON a RH9 box? > > There is no such thing as an ongoing licensing fee from > Microsoft for any > operating system that is for production environments. > Microsoft Partner, > MSDN and Action Pack are yearly subscriptions, but software > included in > those are specifically not for production environments > providing services to > others than internal business. The purchase of an OS is a > perpetual license. > If you are leasing equipment, the vendor may be leasing you > the use of the > OS as well, and any fee for that would be up to the vendor > and between him > and you, as the vendor has surely purchased the OS. > > John Tolmachoff > Engineer/Consultant/Owner > eServices For You > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
