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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."

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  1. yeah...right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    come on. everyone knows your full of shit, even cowboyneal knows this. never post on slashdot again

  2. What a stupid article. by glrotate · · Score: 0, Troll

    First the budget estimates were way off, not to mention funtionality.

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  5. Did management come up with these numbers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    10 meg per mailbox (10 Meg X 5000 mailboxes = 50 Gig)

    That's the best laugh I've had in a while. The average dumbshit office user loves to send stupid little movies to every person in the company. What's worse is when upper management send those ungodly huge powerpoint presentations. And let us not forget that the EU _LOVES_ to leave thing in thier inbox. Not even the warnings telling them that they are waaaaay over the limit stop them from that. Then low and behold you get a call. "my email doesn't work". That's because you're OVER the limit. No, you're inbox isn't clean. You still have things in your sent items, 3152 of them to be exact. No, it's not clean until you empty your trash.

    But the most ignorant user you will ever have is the CEO. For some reason they get to bypass tier 1 and 2 and get straight to you. Since you're the email god and all. I did find a way to shut them up though. when they come in and yell at you that your MS Shit 5.5 crashes tell them this:

    1) That 5.8MB powerpoint file you felt was necessary to send to everyone in the company ate up a shit ton of disk space. That causes havoc in our server becuase it at up so much space in inboxes that the MTA and every other important service bombed because it didn't have enough free space for virtual memmory.

    2) we could have avoided this if you hadn't been such a tight ass and gave me the space I asked for when we installed the new server.

    3) I didn't want to use MS anyway, but you insisted because it makes you warm and fuzzy.

    4) I don't yell at you every time the stock take a 3 point dive. Get out of my office and let me fix your mess!