OT: MS Exchange Alternatives

[Glenn Steen]

On 20/10/06, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
> On Fri, October 20, 2006 10:19, Peter Peters wrote:
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> > hakon at symfoni.no wrote on 18-10-2006 14:16:
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> >> There is always Lotus Domino.  Not free, but very nice :-)
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> > We did an investigation into Exchange, Lotus and Oracle Collaboration
> > Suite. These three were chosen because we had the experience with all
> > three systems in one way or another.
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> > OCS came out best. Lotus was second and Exchange came last. We had some
> > errors in the investigation corrected (by Microsoft) and Exchange came
> > in second.
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> Are you able to give me any more detail/ information regarding your
> investigations?
I too am very interrested in whatever detail you may give. I may have
lost the same (more or less) battle, but that's no reason to give up
the war entirely:-).

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> > Ofcourse management decided to go for Exchange.
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> Isn't that why you did the investigation, so they could just pick what
> they wanted in the first place? :-)
You mean the entries in the usual budget for poor management/planning?
Or the ones labled "My friend who I trust, who is a car salesman,
knows these things better than my highly specialised workforce"?
Unfortunately, there is no smiley to go with that...:-(

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