Jagger is eloquent and informed, but he has a disclaimer: "I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson," he says as he leans back on the couch. "I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, kind of, but how boring is that?"
The Outlook/Exchange user experience, especially in large corporations, is the best email, calendar, and collaboration experience available today by orders of magnitude over anything other product combination out there.
The Exchange store is practically bulletproof (when it goes down, it goes down HARD, but it hardly ever goes down), and the integrated Active Directory user administration makes account administration relatively easy.
The only real administration headache I have heard about (and this is a biggie) is that backups are extremely difficult. Also, when you're running Exchange, you are completely locked into Microsoft and it's practically impossible to get off that treadmill.
I haven't tried Oracle's solution, but I haven't heard anything (good or bad) about it from anyone else either.
I WISH someone would come up with an alternative, because I have to run an Exchange server in my home office (yes, I have RedHat Linux here, too) to get the user experience and functionality that I need. I get a real kick out of using Evolution to access my Exchange email, though. Excellent work, guys!
But it doesn't exist today, and that's not going to change anytime soon. I don't even see anyone taking on this problem, or I would jump in and help them.
But beware! If Microsoft puts a Home version of Exchange on their Home Media Server with, say, 5 email accounts on it, everyone will be running Outlook and Exchange at home, too, and sharing their calendars with each other like Apple's new iCal!
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Fortunately or unfortunately, the Liberty Alliance is "waving the white flag" at Passport, according to this article at eWeek.
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Jagger is eloquent and informed, but he has a disclaimer: "I don't
really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson," he says as
he leans back on the couch. "I'm a creative artist. All I know from
business I've picked up along the way. I never really studied business
in school. I kind of wish I had, kind of, but how boring is that?"
The Outlook/Exchange user experience, especially in large corporations, is the best email, calendar, and collaboration experience available today by orders of magnitude over anything other product combination out there.
The Exchange store is practically bulletproof (when it goes down, it goes down HARD, but it hardly ever goes down), and the integrated Active Directory user administration makes account administration relatively easy.
The only real administration headache I have heard about (and this is a biggie) is that backups are extremely difficult. Also, when you're running Exchange, you are completely locked into Microsoft and it's practically impossible to get off that treadmill.
I haven't tried Oracle's solution, but I haven't heard anything (good or bad) about it from anyone else either.
I WISH someone would come up with an alternative, because I have to run an Exchange server in my home office (yes, I have RedHat Linux here, too) to get the user experience and functionality that I need. I get a real kick out of using Evolution to access my Exchange email, though. Excellent work, guys!
But it doesn't exist today, and that's not going to change anytime soon. I don't even see anyone taking on this problem, or I would jump in and help them.
But beware! If Microsoft puts a Home version of Exchange on their Home Media Server with, say, 5 email accounts on it, everyone will be running Outlook and Exchange at home, too, and sharing their calendars with each other like Apple's new iCal!