[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Chris Knadle]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
> I have to say, that when it comes to their Inboxes and their shared
> calendars and their Blackberrys, much like their accounting software, it
> really does matter if the job gets done.  I see it often enough what
> happens when that job isn't getting done, and it's not pretty.

   Yeah, I've had this problem even when the back-end _wasn't_ Exchange.  Even 
with a Unix mailer back-end like Sendmail, Postfix, Exim4, etc, Outlook users 
are able to send each other calendar entries, tasks, etc, and then sync them 
with their mobile device.  A while back I got caught up in a less than 
half-hearted attempt at migrating to Novell GroupWise, and we ran into a 
number of problems relating to syncing mobile devices at the time, so I know 
what you mean by "not pretty".

> > Exchange really just sucks.... it sucks all the way and George, I swear
> > if I didn't know better I'd had thought you to be a Microsoft paid troll
> > with this conversation.
>
> He's not wrong, Ruben.  Today's Exchange is nothing any administrator is
> going to love, but its users don't curse the ground it was born on.  In
> fact I hear the users speak of it in glowing terms often.  Yes, they
> really do.

   Admittedly I liked it as a user, before I knew anything about the 
server-side of it.  Features are good when they work.  But there was a day or 
two of downtime about once a month, and that was annoying.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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