On Dec 10, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any decent non-biased studies that have been done, > hopefully relatively recently (last few years), that provide such a > comparison? Greetings, I just went through this with a new administrator, who had never used anything but Outlook and exchange. Our mail system is has been based on open source since 1995. It has gone through some upgrades , the only cost these days are a drive replacement and initial cost of the server. exchange server - questions keep popping up, because it's a buz term for email with the bean counters and people in meetings. we did a cost analysis lets say we VM the whole thing. VMbox $3k - $5k + Cost per user , a gut wrenching $165 Plus, depending upon the features. Active Directory required $ License per user just to have an account. in house cost per year was $2,105 The cost to move everyone would be ridiculous , so we went with a pilot for 40 users. For 40 users , we registered a new domain name and sent them to exchange online, where the total cost was $2,000. While all along, our current email setup; postfix, amavisd, dovecot, is working fine and costing us nothing. -j
