Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Shubert
Ben Browning wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Nice piece, Ben. I might add that with a reduction in hardware comes an increase in reliability. To some degree, anyway... In N+1 clustering solutions, more hardware leads to better stability. Good point. My thinking context was in the absence of

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-27 Thread JD Austin
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Ben Browning wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Nice piece, Ben. I might add that with a reduction in hardware comes an increase in reliability. To some degree, anyway... In N+1 clustering solutions, more hardware leads to

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Shubert
Nice piece, Ben. I might add that with a reduction in hardware comes an increase in reliability. I worked on a server some time ago that had SCSI drives which had a MTBF of 36 years. The server had 72 of them. One failed every 6 months, like clockwork. Ben Browning wrote: Hardware

Re: IPA - (was OT:Exchange good? )

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Shubert
Ed wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:13 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: On a slightly off topic question. How much free ipa experience do you have? Can you do single sign on using free ipa for windows and Linux clients? How

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Lindley
OK so if I want to port my existing business landline 480-947-6100 (in the original Scottsdale WHitney 7 exchange) to an Asterisk box... how do I go about doing that? Will Qwest even let me port an old number (which I don't want to lose) like that? Who do I pay to handle the SIP connection?

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread JD Austin
Laurence J. Peter - If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bill Lindley wlind...@wlindley.comwrote: OK so if I want to port my existing business landline 480-947-6100 (in the original Scottsdale WHitney 7 exchange) to an Asterisk box... how do I go

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: newhotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:16 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: newhotness?) OK so if I want to port my existing business landline 480-947-6100 (in the original Scottsdale WHitney 7 exchange) to an Asterisk box... how do

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Stephen
My sell on it is VMware ESXi will allow you to load your dead server on any other machine running ESXi wich is free so your dead server can be up and running in 15-20 min instead of 2-4 days depending on how long it takes to get failed hardware working again. i sold a number fo them that way very

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Stephen
I was actually helping someone plan a business model on this idea, you have a server in place as part of a paid IT contract it would cover a loaner server fro just this scenario so your data could be move imported and running as is in a minimal amount of timew while the ahrdware as checked

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Ben Browning
Hardware agnosticism is one of the best benefits. I love ESXi dearly. Consider this: 2x redundant DNS servers, 2x redundant mail servers, 2x redundant file servers A decent DMZ buildout for a small office. With ESXi you can do that in 2U of rack space and have complete physical

eGroupWare - The exchange replacment? (Was OT:Exchange good?)

2009-02-25 Thread Bryan O'Neal
-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JD Austin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:11 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:36

Re: IPA - (was OT:Exchange good? )

2009-02-25 Thread Ed
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:13 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: On a slightly off topic question.  How much free ipa experience do you have? Can you do single sign on using free ipa for windows and Linux clients?  How easy is it

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
, 2009 6:53 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:03 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: It's obvious from this discussion and from things I have experienced, that software freedom is usually not highly

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
Honestly I would love to see a real floss solution to sbs as a whole I have seen things close but pt quite Maybe ill start building something as a personal project Not that I can code to save my life. On 2/23/09, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 14:14 -0700,

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
projects? Anyone know? -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:10 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: I apologize for not having more time, perhaps to dig up some of my old data. However the methodology went something like this. Equipment + Install + Configuration + User time cost + Time cost for upgrades,

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:36 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I could code to save my life, but not well enough to start a whole project. However, for something like a sbs solution I would think the real talent would be in just creating a distro that had solutions pre installed and configured with a

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
Vince Lombardi - Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:36 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I could code to save my life, but not well enough to start a whole project. However, for

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: I apologize for not having more time, perhaps to dig up some of my old data. However the methodology went something like this. Equipment + Install + Configuration + User time cost + Time cost for upgrades,

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
I suppose that we have come full circle on this topic. Some are determined to only consider a single, consolidated package that purports to take on Exchange Server on all fronts. Some of us are willing to 'cobble' as you put it the various parts and pieces of open source projects to

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
Also Windows Small Business Server does not support Terminal Services, at least in SBS 2k3 outside of remote desktop administration. and I think compileing a good list of what SBS really does, and adding to that is a good start. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Bryan O'Neal

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:43 -0700, Stephen wrote: It also explains the cobble mentality that alot of people have. the 'cobble mentality' is core to open source. Everywhere you turn you find it. The whole notion is that you don't have to supply a dictionary and an engine to access it but

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
Fran Lebowitz - You're only has good as your last haircut. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.comwrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:43 -0700, Stephen wrote: It also explains the cobble mentality that alot of people have. the 'cobble mentality' is core to

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
I misused the term, it was never meant to be a bad thing, it just is and everyone makes things tey like but none of them actually talk to each other. i guess that's what my original use of the word was to mean. and the reason alot of people go with SBS is because that it is a unified package.

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:48 -0700, Stephen wrote: I misused the term, it was never meant to be a bad thing, it just is and everyone makes things tey like but none of them actually talk to each other. i guess that's what my original use of the word was to mean. and the reason alot of

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Elzer
the resources for those functions. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:18 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Cope
Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:43 -0700, Stephen wrote: It also explains the cobble mentality that alot of people have. the 'cobble mentality' is core to open source. Everywhere you turn you find it. The whole

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Craig White wrote: and then you're be another administrator who never took the time to understand the underlying technologies, with no derived skills to troubleshoot problems and no study why other parts/daemons might be better suited for your particular needs.

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:03 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: I still haven't seen a list of applications that rival Exchange. I have a client that wants some of the features of exchange, but can't afford it, making him a great candidate for FOSS. I just don't know what packages to use. He would like

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
Just look at Vista and Windows 7, could someone please explain why the OS went from 4GB in Win Xp to 11GB in Vista and Win 7 ??? without gaining and new usability. Sure it's got nifty graphics, but 7GB worth ? Really can anybody explain where the 7Gb went ? I know a large part of that is actually

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
this si tough, i had found a web driven double entry accounting application some time ago but i cannot remember the fool name of it. if i track it back down ill definitely let you know. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: I still haven't seen a list of

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:03 -0700, Alex Dean wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Craig White wrote: and then you're be another administrator who never took the time to understand the underlying technologies, with no derived skills to troubleshoot problems and no study why other

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:26 -0700, Stephen wrote: Just look at Vista and Windows 7, could someone please explain why the OS went from 4GB in Win Xp to 11GB in Vista and Win 7 ??? without gaining and new usability. Sure it's got nifty graphics, but 7GB worth ? Really can anybody explain where

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: this si tough, i had found a web driven double entry accounting application some time ago but i cannot remember the fool name of it. if i track it back down ill definitely let you know. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Eric

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
its not about not thinking its about having a series of solutions to match a business need or desire that integrate with eachother. telling me that im and then you're be another administrator who never took the time to understand the underlying technologies, with no derived skills to troubleshoot

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I think the general intent is that disk space, like RAM is cheap and they don't much care about wasted disk space. My new Acer Aspire One. Windows XP SP3 w/ Open Office (MS Office Trial version removed), AVG Free 8.0

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:03 -0700, Alex Dean wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Craig White wrote: and then you're be another administrator who never took the time to understand the underlying technologies, with no derived skills to

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 14:04 -0700, JD Austin wrote: I got an eee 701.. managed to load XP on an SD card but then Office wouldn't install right (kept aborting during install because it didn't like where it was installing to). I ended up going to Mandriva. I chose Mandriva because it

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:03 -0700, Alex Dean wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Craig White wrote: and then you're be another administrator who never took the time to

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:24 PM, JD Austin wrote: If you're still working with Plesk I understand your pain! Go here: http://atomicrocketturtle.com ... Scott's Plesk repository and forum are WAY ahead of anything that swsoft puts out. I stopped running a Plesk server last year and his repository

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Stephen
I know from personal experience that ubuntu 8.x works well but useing their netbook install helped visually. With space on that little screen On 2/24/09, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 14:04 -0700, JD Austin wrote: I got an eee 701.. managed to load XP on an

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Elzer
White Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:34 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:26 -0700, Stephen wrote: Just look at Vista and Windows 7, could someone please explain why the OS went from 4GB

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JD Austin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:50 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Bryan

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
, 2009 9:34 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) Vince Lombardi - Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:36

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
and a few others it would be easy to do. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:51 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good

IPA - (was OT:Exchange good? )

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:18 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:43 -0700

Re: IPA - (was OT:Exchange good? )

2009-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:13 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: On a slightly off topic question. How much free ipa experience do you have? Can you do single sign on using free ipa for windows and Linux clients? How easy is it to controlee policy? I have some time at the moment and may want to look

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bob Elzer Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:13 PM To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) I remember the ACDSee picture program on Windows, when it first came

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
don't run well in wine. _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric Cope Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:03 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alex Dean Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:04 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:30 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) this si

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) its not about not thinking its about having a series of solutions to match a business need or desire that integrate with eachother. telling me that im and then you're be another administrator who never took

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: Thank you very much for the update on Asterisks! I have always had a soft spot for it and am exited that it is expanding into the market nicely :) As for maintaining my servers, with cornerstone I was the director

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: Other then Google apps? No. I too would love to know. Their are some issues with Google apps, such as the fact that I can not get contact syncing working with a desktop client. I have tried a number of products

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-24 Thread Bryan O'Neal
the next ten will lead us. _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JD Austin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:11 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Jason
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:48 -0700, JD Austin wrote: And for cost I can put an exchange system in for a 70 person office with all the clients and servers licensed from scratch with AD and everything, including the server and my time to set it up for

RE: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
: Re: OT:Exchange good On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I think one main thing is Either these things matter to your client or they don't.. If there were a base product or a series of products that just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I would

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Stephen
This is mostly a personal prefrence discussion, but this one is a bit overbaord: I suppose you can justify whatever you believe to be costs as you see fit. The SBS version is by intent a hampered product to encourage adoption - sort of like the drug dealer giving the drugs away until you get

Re: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-23 Thread Stephen
Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I think one main thing is Either these things matter to your client or they don't.. If there were a base product or a series of products that just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:03 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: These thread(s) which I spawned have been a mixed blessing. I learned much but sometimes felt like I opened the door to sales pitches for lock-in technology. Overall I have appreciated the discussion, education and civil disagreement.

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Jason
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:03 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: It's obvious from this discussion and from things I have experienced, that software freedom is usually not highly valued. Worse, it's not even considered in many cases. That is partially true. I do know of several..thousands actually..IT

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of JD Austin Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:48 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?) Why do you think TCO of an Asterisk system is HIGHER than

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 6:13 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:48 -0700, JD

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I concur. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:14 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin

RE: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I also concur -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:22 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good Ironically this was part

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:46 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) On Mon

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:04 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?) These thread(s) which I spawned have been a mixed blessing. I learned much but sometimes felt like I opened the door

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
of the software, but they are not the only factors. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:36 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange

Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen
i can see this happening, and i would like to see more options besides exchange. i think its healthy for dev teams to have something to compete against. but remember exchange is also backed by a huge suite of other things that all work together and it all integrates. thats the flip side that

RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:14 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:37 -0700, Alan

RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:45 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I disagree... Mostly. - Tough to backup Like any database it needs to be shut down for standard file backups to work properly. This can be done via a simple script and is not a real issue. However the use of back up programs like

Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen
I know the 2 bugaboos for excahnge in requirements is Disk IO for large companies, (not as much an issue in a small sub 1000 users company) and ram. exchange up to 2003 is a 4gb of ram beastie. im not sure about the mailbox recovery, but i know it can run on ESXi vm as long as you have 2 cores

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
, I get flamed from both sides. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:24 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good

RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:14 AM To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) Well I haven't used the latest exchange and it's been a while, so maybe you can tell me if they worked around the issues I had with it. It requires it's own server

RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) I know the 2 bugaboos for excahnge in requirements is Disk IO for large companies, (not as much an issue in a small sub 1000 users company) and ram. exchange up to 2003 is a 4gb of ram beastie. im not sure about

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen P Rufle
Would it be fair to say that MS keeps just enough of exchange or its communication methods secret so that it is hard for others (OSS projects) to create the same seamless integration available using the MS native programs without buying a license for the secret technology . It seems that the

RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
, 2009 12:00 PM To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) Exchange works and for now it probably has the best calendar app. But MS designed it to only work with it's own relatives, It was not designed to play nice with the rest of the kids on the block

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?) I too am interested in a FOSS version of Exchange, so if anyone has any recommendations, I am all ears. Eric On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bob Elzer
That understates it EXACTLY !!! lol -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen P Rufle Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:06 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
;) -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen P Rufle Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:06 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:new

RE: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:47 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: $1500 is the cost of the box, the server os, the exchange server, the AD, and set up. The client licenses (aka outlook) run about $40 per user. Since set up can be done off the AD controller (including client program installation) there

Re: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen P Rufle
I think one main thing is Either these things matter to your client or they don't.. If there were a base product or a series of products that just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I would think a group of people could stitch it all together in a way that would be sellable.

Re: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan ONeal
I will agree with this. On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I think one main thing is Either these things matter to your client or they don't.. If there were a base product or a series of products that just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I would

Re: OT:Exchange good

2009-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I think one main thing is Either these things matter to your client or they don't.. If there were a base product or a series of products that just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I would think a group of people

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-20 Thread JD Austin
] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:24 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:45 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I disagree... Mostly. - Tough to backup Like any database it needs to be shut down

OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree on exchange really If you need just email exchange is the wrong thing but if you are looking at all the other stuff I haven't seen anything close without some serious work and cobbling As a forced user of Exchange

Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen
What exchange can do is really good, but gettong it to work well is almost Byzantine in its poorly doctumented way I have run them and will do so again but the bugaboos that don't come up till its an issue are the kicker and not worth it if your doing just email and the like but it is petlt the

Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 19:37 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree on exchange really If you need just email exchange is the wrong thing but if you are looking at all the other stuff I haven't seen anything close without some