> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Gary Mills wrote: > > > We may be deciding to replace our current sendmail MTA and Cyrus IMAP > > server installation with the Sun ONE messaging server, because we > > already have the licences for Sun ONE as part of another product. > > Everything I have heard about Sun ONE has been positive. Is it really > > that good? What are we likely to lose if we make this move? > > Rob Siemborski wrote: > I suspect the tradeoffs you'll have will be more or less > similar to any open/closed source product tradeoff -- there's better > support and more attention to the UI, but it will be harder to fix things > directly by getting your hands dirty. > > You'll also have to deal with the transition. Then again, if the > unification of all of their products is to be believed, it may make your > life easier in the long run. >
Rob speaks the truth. Our transition from sendmail and Cyrus IMAP was eased by having Sun Professional Services help us install it. It's a big, sprawling thing with incredibly long pathnames and peculiar notions of where you have to be before you can run a program, and our users are shocked at how much memory they need in their home computers for the webmail part. But the server runs fine, and I have no regrets. Contact me offline for gory details. -- Gloria Rom UCLA Library Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
