On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 15:05 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Monday, October 05, 2009 11:50 PM +0200 mouss <mo...@ml.netoyen.net> > wrote: > > > Thomas Mullins a écrit : > >> We have been running Spamassassin for maybe eight years now. But, my > >> coworkers do not like OpenSource. So they have finally complained > >> enough that my boss is going to replace our reliable > >> FreeBSD/Spamassassin boxes. They are planning on purchasing something > >> that runs ON Exchange. What a bummer. > >> > >> > > > > and the problem is? > > > > if they want exchange, give them exchange. don't fight (directly), watch > > instead. take pleasure of the situation, get fun as you can. I > > personally took fun all day long in windows-only (and believe it or not, > > in linux-only) environments. > > > > > > that said, you can still try to explain that exchange should not be > > exposed to the internet. you still need a relay (such as freebsd/postfix). > > > > And once exchange falls over, show them Zimbra. ;) Which uses > postfix/SA/amavis, etc, and looks a lot like exchange... only better. ;) >
Isnt zimbra dead as yet ? Yahoo deliberately messed it I believe , and now look to dump it Anyway I think people run away from open source because it is "unsupported". Management doesnt want to have any indispensable IT team , so that they can always recruit some cheap M$$ trained guy from the market to do a dirty job. There is also "security" in question. If something goes wrong with your linux/BSD box *you* will be blamed. If something goes wrong with m$ box (as usual) they would claim that that is how it is supposed to work :-). After all it is from the leading software makers. Never mind that the management also get sponsored International holidays for putting their entire budget in worthless stuff. > --Quanah > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Principal Software Engineer > Zimbra, Inc > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
