Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Apr 7 13:40:41 CDT 2009
John: Most of my major clients, which are banks, do all their services through remote connections via big centralized Cytrix servers and more of these clients are moving that way every day. I have always had my doubts about systems so tied to the internet but according to their stats the risk of local equipment failing plus the extra costs of support make this method actually safer and more reliable. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:21 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] looking for an alternative to Exchange Mark, Problem is the Internet service goes down the email system goes down. That's where they're at now. The service is awful and there's little I can do to address that. I can however, set up a better system for them internally. They have cable. Another client is just proving to be un-trainable in regards to using their file server for transferring files to each other. They email huge attachments to the person in the next room. It's just the most ridiculous thing I can think of and I have talked to the manager about it a number of times over the last couple of years. She doesn't have a problem with it (until of course, they can't get anything to work via the internet because it is so clogged with huge email attachments!) Their internet service has also become totally unreliable over the last couple of months. They have DSL. Exchange Server came to mind but neither of these clients has the staff to admin/maintain Exchange or the budget to support me doing it. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:02 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] looking for an alternative to Exchange Hello John, I switched a 10 user site to Google App two and a half years ago. Currently they have about 50 users, approx 10 are intensive users. It is not onsite, but the benefits of it are worth looking at no backups no av no spyware no spam completely free almost 100% up time in two years always fast plenty of storage I am still looking for a downside. If users demand to use outlook, you can give them pop3 access, but the web based interface is really the way to go. You can run the google apps mail, but leave the website hosted where it is. I really like this product. Mark 2009/4/7 John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> > To put it a simply as I can. I'm looking for an email server system that > can > handle incoming/outgoing internet email addresses but can also redirect the > email sent to inter-office addresses so that they don't need to leave the > network. Open source (or low cost) for Windows Server 20003/2008 would be > great. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com