On 09/10/2010 01:18 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 08/14/2010 08:12 PM, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> The main thing that has yet to be done is work on an automated upgrade >> path from existing 2.2 installations to the 2.3 packages. If you want to >> test these packages, please let us know about how your upgrade process >> went - what worked, what didn't and how you fixed any problems you >> encountered. >> > > > On 09/01/2010 03:20 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > >> I'm guessing that most people who are upgrading a mail server are > >> upgrading the hardware, too. > > > > Please provide a basis for that assertation. I think that that's > > probably true for large installations, but for many small > > businesses/organizations it is not. > > > Hi - > > I never responded to this. Although I *think* most people will want to > upgrade their hardware at the same time that they upgrade their mail > server software (hardware is cheap after all, and labor is expensive) > I suppose I could be wrong about this. But in any case I didn't think > about the case of murder installs.
That may be true for large organizations, but misses TONS of use cases, from individuals with personal servers to non-profits to schools to places where admins can choose to spend their time more easily than they can requisition new hardware to.... Additionally, it fails to take in to account a variety of reasons for upgrading - tracking security updates, wanting new features, etc. Also, I think that doing a message sync via imap is significantly more complex for a user than using a pre-written script to update their database.
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