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 wrote: > 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? W

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? Where

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 wrote: > 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 of IT but > their was n

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

2009-02-24 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 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 M

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 wrote: > 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, > maintenance, and expansion/

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 wrote: > 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, > maintenance, and expansion/

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

2009-02-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
scuss-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 -070

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

2009-02-23 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 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 Asteri

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

2009-02-20 Thread JD Austin
ry > software, just like in the business world I am the fringe voice of free and > open source. So, 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

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 wrote: Craig, I think you are mi

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
ay, February 20, 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

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 $1500

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

2009-02-20 Thread Eric Cope
lug-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? (Was:Re: new hotness?) > > On Fri, 2009-

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
: 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 the

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Elzer 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 requi

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Neal
T: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 for standard file backups > to work properly. This can be done via a simple script and is not

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bob Elzer
tion too. -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: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:21 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) I kno

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 and

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

2009-02-20 Thread Bob Elzer
---Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Neal Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:45 AM To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

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 Bryan O'Neal
cant be integrated, he just says it's not open and that's enough :) -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: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:14 PM To: Main PLUG dis

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 compe

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 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 wor

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

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 19 February 2009 22:34:17 you wrote: > Rely! KDE Kontact! I am so going to check that out this weekend! Thanks > > :) > : > > --- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

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

2009-02-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Rely! KDE Kontact! I am so going to check that out this weekend! Thanks :) > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/ma

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

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
ug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan > Dayley > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:38 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:

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 bes

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: > I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and > wondering what dis has something really groundbreaking that makes it > worthwhile to look at. > > I guess part of me is tired of the flavor of the month distribut

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

2009-02-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
2009 7:38 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen 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'

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 19 February 2009 18:12:00 Francis Earl wrote: > > My personal list of Distributions i have spent some real quality time > > with > > > > Ubuntu/Debian > > Fedora/Red Hat new and old/Centos > > Suse/Opensuse > > Gentoo > > You should take some time to look at Arch. While it isn't partic

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:37 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: new hotness? hehe i liked FreeBSD but it really didnt bring enough to the table other than being the other *nix

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

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen 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 via Outlook I consi

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Francis Earl
> My personal list of Distributions i have spent some real quality time with > > Ubuntu/Debian > Fedora/Red Hat new and old/Centos > Suse/Opensuse > Gentoo You should take some time to look at Arch. While it isn't particularly new (2002 first release) it is basically the ideal distro. Packaging

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen
hange is no harder the any other MS server product. ;) > > Ok, now that I have dove in here, let me get the fire suit on before I get > roasted alive :) > > _ > > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
ug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Lisa Kachold Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:56 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: new hotness? No technical professional today can afford to not become familiar and

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen
hehe i liked FreeBSD but it really didnt bring enough to the table other than being the other *nix for me. i should learn it in a real way eventually but i like linux just fine. OpenSolaris really gave me nothing at all interesting except it was by sun ... but that was running on my 2002 P4 beast o

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Elzer
M To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: new hotness? I came to list not for one answer but for many... :-) ill have tolook at the open VZ/Virtuozzo sometime as we need a pretty hefty virtual datacenter at some point. we are useing ESXi now but the virtualcenter is horribly expensive even at th

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen P Rufle
Play with BSD or OpenSolaris At the last Stammtisch we were talking about Myth TV and Squeeze Box maybe that would be interesting. Stephen wrote: > I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and > wondering what dis has something really groundbreaking that makes it > wort

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
- 3PM From: lisakach...@obnosis.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: new hotness? Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:56:02 + No technical professional today can afford to not become familiar and proficient with KNOPPIX including checking out the excellent O'Reilly Kn

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen
I came to list not for one answer but for many... :-) ill have tolook at the open VZ/Virtuozzo sometime as we need a pretty hefty virtual datacenter at some point. we are useing ESXi now but the virtualcenter is horribly expensive even at the 40 some % off we would get as a not for profit. but th

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
rosoft-ish interface. https://www.smartertools.com/SmarterMail/Features/Windows-Mail-Server-Software-Webmail-Exchange-Alternative.aspx obnosis.com | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS 2nd Saturday Each mo...@noon - 3PM > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:51:55 -0700 > Subject: new hotness? >

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Jones
s-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:52 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: new hotness? > > I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and wondering what > dis has something really groundbreaki

RE: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Elzer
ists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:52 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: new hotness? I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and wondering what dis has something really groundbreaking that makes it worthwhile to look at. I gu

new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen
I have been looking about for the new hotness as it were. and wondering what dis has something really groundbreaking that makes it worthwhile to look at. I guess part of me is tired of the flavor of the month distributions that are esentially something else with a new look and a slightly