On Tuesday 01 April 2008 00:41, Amos Shapira wrote: > Oh good - all the points given against using Google web applications PLUS > having the opportunity to use Lookout, get infected with viruses, and always > worry that they will pull out another hotmail.co.il on you :)
I suggest you first read/hear the relevant data, analyze it, and then criticize. Cheap popolism is maybe fun, but very counter productive. > For people who just have to use Exchange this might be a good go-between as > managing a private exchange server can be indeed a major resource drain > (with the caveat that the connection to it is reliable). Well, it's 2008, and the solution this time will be hosted in Israel. I suggest not to remain entranched into ideas and things that happened 5 years ago, without being able to re-examine beliefs. > I'm not sure you can save on these anyway - you'd want to backup e-mails > even from your hosted solution, wouldn't you? And you'll have some sort of a > shared file server anyway (which will require all of the above). All you > save is the headache of having to figure out the right "click path" whenever > you have to configure the damn thing, and understand the quirky MS network > terminology. No, the backup solution will be provided as a service most likely. No need to buy a LTO library, backup software, software contracts, backup server, sysadmin with relevant knowledge, etc etc etc. Exchange backup (without taking it down and at brick level) is a very different beast to backup and maintain compared to a file server. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
