>Bottom line: I would be hard pressed to find a reason to install and >maintain dedicated fax software, pay for portion of server resources >used (or pay for a dedicated fax server), pay for a bunch of regular >phone lines, and pay a premium for fax transmissions when internet >related fax services are so cheap, secure, and easy-to-use.
I just want the fax server to run on Linux; we aren't moving to Linux workstations any time soon. 17 fax numbers currently in use x the 500 page/per month plan @ $39.95 is $679.15 a month, or $8,149.80 a year. Not all of our numbers do 500 pages a month, but several of them do much more than that. It's 1.2 cents per page if you go over. Some amount of our faxes are long distance; we'd save those charges--though we get very cheap long distance rates through Time-Warner Telecom. So even very conservatively speaking, based on the information on their website, Send2Fax would probably cost us $400 a month, or $4,800 a year. Our phone "lines" are all on a T1 that we can break out any way we want--no extra montly charge for more "lines". The 20 DID numbers we have at the moment cost just a few bucks per month. My one-time cost for the most expensive Windows-based fax networking system on the planet would probably be around $10,000, including hardware. Send2Fax does not sound like a good deal to me. It appears that at least some faxes sent through Send2Fax (perhaps only the HIPAA-compliant "secure" ones--which would be a high percentage of our outgoing volume) can only be viewed by recipients by accessing the Send2Fax website. Internet access on the part of recipients is not guaranteed. All faxes have to be presumed to be delivered over ordinary phone lines to ordinary fax machines. Plus, Send2Fax does not provide an all-in-one client for acquiring fax images from a scanner and sending them through the server. (Neither, apparently, does Hylafax, though I've inquired about it.) A very high percentage of the faxes we send are from paper, and the users absolutely will not be able to cope with having to pull them in and edit them in a generic imaging program before sending them on via the "print to fax" metaphor. Thanks for responding, though. Ken www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
