[olug] IE and mozilla.org

[Rod Hurley]

Interestingly enough, we have the groupware functionality with
Groupwise.  Calandering, tasks, appointments, priority mail, proxy,
integration with Blackberry and Ipaqs, webmail, Hit the Road (mail
caching for travelling users to read/delete emails on the plane and
synch up when they return), and most of all security.  

I was here when Nimda was wild and there were NO signatures available. 
We had 2 Windows pc users hit a website with an embedded virus and we
had to pull those pcs off the network.  Our servers, (through the drive
mapping functionality of Windows) accumulated 93,000+ files in 2 hours
which we manually deleted.  Our email system was never ever down, or
slowed because the virus was attempting to use Exchange as it's
incubator.  Groupwise did nothing with the requests.  That is our
primary difference between the 2 systems.  

And I must say this:  "They outclass their competition (Novell, Lotus)
because they are Microsoft" doesn't follow.  Being the richest, and most
arrogant doesn't make me the best guy in the office.  I let my
performance speak for itself.
>>> smkelly at zombie.org 3/23/2005 11:08:22 AM >>>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:11:19AM -0800, Sean Edwards wrote:
> These are the 3 I know of so far:
> 
> 1) Meridian
> 2) Tenaska
> 3) Omni
> 
...
> The analysis of this would be interesting, and maybe
> even the actual (not specuative) reason(s) for this
> Exchange push could be extrapolated.

If I had to guess, I'd say that these companies are migrating to
Exchange
to make use of the groupware functionality. Not because of some dark
secret
Microsoft move to convert all of Omaha into an Exchange zone.

Many medium to large sized companies and organizations need groupware
systems. Systems that manage e-mail, calendaring, tasks, meetings,
resources, and so forth. Exchange does all of this. Some of it works
fairly
well, while other parts don't. They outclass their competition
(Novell,
Lotus) because they are Microsoft and because their product really has
some
key advantages.

Where I work, we have recently migrated to Exchange and some smaller
areas
are still migrating. While I originally didn't care for it, I've
learned to 
like the calendaring features. I'm still not big on the actual e-mail
part,
but the calendaring is great.

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