This is true and accounted for. I would love nothing more than say "Google, here you go!" and not have to manage the servers.
Thanks, Cameron Kilton Project Manager Midcoast Internet Solutions http://www.midcoast.com c...@midcoast.com (207) 594-8277 x 108 On 3/30/2011 2:14 PM, David E. Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:47, Cameron Kilton <c...@midcoast.com > <mailto:c...@midcoast.com>> wrote: > > We have over 7400 email boxes. At $0.35 each that is almost $2,600/month > or $31,200/year. That is a large expense for email. > > > That's large enough, that it's almost certainly more cost-effective to > do it in-house. > > If I were inclined to make up bogus rules-of-thumb, I'd probably say > that if you have fewer than 1000 mailboxes it's likely less expensive to > outsource, and over 5000 you should be doing it in-house. There's a lot > of grey area between those two number, though. > > If you do it in-house, there are hardware costs, software costs (even > with open-source you should be donating to the projects that keep your > business running), electricity, cooling, paying someone to keep an eye > on all of the above and to fix it when it breaks... Many people overlook > all these overhead expenses. When you outsource, they give you one > number. In-house, you have to remember to add up all those little > numbers, and not everyone does. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
