The one overriding thing I can think of that would reasonably indicate the
deployment of Exchange when a sendmail-based operation is doing the job
adequately is if there were a demonstrable business advantage to
implementing an Exchange-based software application, by which I mean that it
would be more cost-effective to accomplish a business objective using an
Exchange-based app than it would be to accomplish the same objective any
other way. You don't say how large your company is, but Exchange will
likely require its own server infrastructure (cha-ching for hardware and
cha-ching for NT Server to run it on) and (IIRC) its own per-client
licensing costs.
If sendmail is sending the mail now and all they want to have at the end is
Exchange sending the mail, then there is a very clear economic case for
avoiding Exchange that can be built regarding the up-front costs. It's fair
to ask if the additional cost is justified by the calendaring and meeting
notification stuff you might not otherwise get. If you have no NT Server
plant at all right now, then the cost is going to be a looloo.
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:">Robert.L.Harris@rnd-consulting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:05 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Reasons not to go Exchange
>
>
>
>
> There is currently a large push at my company to remove a
> working sendmail
> system and replace it with exchange. Apparently my word that
> is'a bad
> idea isn't good enough. I need factual stories, containing
> real company
> names I can hand to the guys upstairs to say "THIS IS A VERY BAD IDEA,
> DON'T DO IT"
>
> They won't accept "A guy i talked to said it didn't work right at his
> company."...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> :wq!
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> Robert L. Harris | Low quality in a product happens.
> Senior System Engineer | That doesn't mean it's right and
> at RnD Consulting | definitely doesn't
> mean it should
> \_ be accepted.
> Require quality.
> DISCLAIMER:
> These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
> perl -e 'print
> $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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