On 7/7/06, Leland Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I disagree. I think any small company of from 5 to 300 employees would benefit from an in house mail server. This represents a great opportunity for anyone that wants to get into providing vital email communication services.
And here's our fundamental disagreement: the question is what business are you in? Software development or hosting or both? And what is the client's expecations? Most clients these days believe the internet is as reliable as dialtone, and they are off by orders of magnitude. Are you offering part of the solution, or do you want to be part of the problem? My hosting provider has multiple links to different backbones, fire suppression, backups, disaster recovery plans, a standby generator, sysadmins with pagers, redundant cross-linked routers and the electrical and network switchgear to switch over automatically on failure. They were still down for most of a business day recently. Most of my clients don't want to hear that the construction equipment that drove by snagged my DSL line and the telephone company will be by later this week to run a new cable; they want to read their mail. I am not interested in providing them with a Service Level Agreement nor being on-call 24x365. Same question as before: what business are you in? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
