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Exchange vs. Linux/390 Comparison

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-a-close-look-at-it dept.

eclarkso writes: " The Consulting Times has done a quite even-handed study of the TCO for each platform in a fairly large (5000+) enterprise environment. The article is as much a commentary on the mainframe architecture as it is on Exchange vs. Linux groupware."

6 of 276 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Too bad by diatonic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually HP still supports openmail.. and will for another 5 years.

    From HP's web site:

    HP will support our customers using versions 6.0 and 7.0 of the product for the next five years until March 31st 2006. The new 7.0 release further strengthens OpenMail's ability to support thousands of users per server and provide rich functionality when connected to the Outlook client. Support for OpenMail 5.10 continues until 31st October 2001.

  2. Management Overhead. by Rimbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    "For the sake of simplicity, certain items such as depreciation and management overhead were excluded from the comparisons."

    It's kind of interesting, since management overhead is widely regarded as the main reason why people prefer Windoze systems to Linux systems. People believe that it costs less money to perform essential administration tasks in Windows than it does in Linux.

    I'm not stating that the costs actually are lower, but it's not a terribly informative article if they're going to eliminate that important bit of information.

  3. have you seen the new mainframes? by denshi · · Score: 5, Informative
    In this case, the S/390 series. The zSeries mainframes (12 CPUs) are about half the height of a rack and a bit wider. And the power requirements are way lower.

    Why do you need VM programmers? The port is already done, the logic for running Linux as a guest OS is there, and it's stable. Henceforth you should be coding on the Linux level, not the VM level.

  4. Re:Did I miss the hardware/software support costs? by OSgod · · Score: 2, Informative
    Then let's see the pricing for it.

    One down side to Notes comparison -- the interface stinks big time as an e-mail client. Although configurable it does not compare with Outlook out of the box. It stinks to the rate of impacting user use of e-mail -- i.e.: Notes users on average use e-mail less than 1/2 as much as Exchange users do...

  5. Re:Did I miss the hardware/software support costs? by classClown · · Score: 2, Informative

    The groupware used on the Linux/390 is Bynari

  6. Re:Yes, it looked pretty bogus. Virus, User Troubl by sheldon · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Fred can reply to you@foo.com, but doesn't have a way to reply to "Joe User, Marketing" or whatever Jane's fictitious title is. "

    Huh?

    Exchange automatically does the conversion when it goes out the SMTP layer.