RE: Mail Server Options (was:Disk Drives)

[Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

See my other post in Disk Drives for more, but we're looking at about 800
clients. I know that the CALs are giving them problems now - it appears that
for software the quotes will be close. I'm looking at the license renewal
for iNotes as well because that will definitely play in the TCO. The CALs
sound horrible if we ever decided to upgrade the OS. For starters we will be
just e-mail. The TeamRooms are great and I believe we would definitely
utilize that group collaboration. We're looking at Workflow as well to
integrate with OnDemand on our production machine (we may go with Content
Manager, but Domino Workflow would also be viable).

I've even configured a Linux box with Sendmail and POP3 - how much cheaper
could we get with just hardware costs? Apparently they don't want to go with
Linux because of support, but RedHat offers support.

Thanks again, Chris Whisonant

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:28 AM
To: 'midrange-lmidrangecom'
Subject: Mail Server Options (was:Disk Drives)


How many people do you need to support?  When you exceed 200 clients, Domino
starts to take the lead on total cost up front.  Exchange CAL's will eat you
budget quickly.  What type of work load are you talking about?  E-mail only?
If so, there are many other alterative such as the native POP3 and SMTP of
OS400.  If you are going to develop application then Domino is it.  If you
need just Group Collaboration, you have several choices.  OS400/Domino,
2K/Exchange, and several under Linux.

Christopher K. Bipes          mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive         Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928      Fax: 707 586-1884
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