Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago), things 
>> like Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email
>> systems did not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again?
>> If we needed complete control of things or our email requirements...

Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I successfully lobbied my university board to switch to what is now
> called G Suite, which is free for educational users. The main
> motivation was economic: we simply couldn't afford to keep expanding
> our server hardware infrastructure to carry the exploding load, but
> more importantly the corporate salary structure didn't allow us to
> pay competitive rates to admins.

A large part of the decision are non-technical considerations.  There's
the obvious hardware and staffing costs. But you may also have legal
considerations, such as:

Are you required to keep your data in-house?  Or if you don't have to,
does an external host keep it in a country that's acceptable to you. 
Are you required to keep your data perpetually?  And I'm sure there's a
plethora of other non-tech considerations.

-- 
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64

Boilerplate:  All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
the messages posted to the mailing list.

Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry!
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