so which FOSS solution includes all the legal features, DR, and mobile functionality? with Exchange you just point your phone or blackberry to your mailbox and you've got mail. someone loses his phone, you just wipe it remotely over the cell phone network
do the FOSS solutions include failover, replication, archiving, integration with your company's telephone system and a long list of other features?
say you are a 5000 person company and NYC loses electricity again and you have 3000 people in other states that still need to work. with exchange 2007 and later you replicate your mail to a standby server.
It's like the IPhone. the basic parts of a phone are mature like calling, address book, voice mail, etc. it's the apps that make the iphone a killer phone
same thing with exchange. email, calendar and other features are mature. it's features like replicating your email to another city for failover that are killer features now. along with archiving and other legal requirements that are built into the box
if there is a disaster than POP and IMAP are useless and can result in lost data. today if you have a failover you can just check your email on your phone if your PC loses power
if you have an iphone or winmo you can point your phone to a corporate email server and it will download all your email into the phone as long as you have a signal. and the IT department can manage all the phones remotely.
say your hippy marketing exec loses his or her iphone and it has all kinds of data on it. the IT people can just wipe it remotely not caring where it is.
say you have to keep all email for at least 7 years but you don't want it in anyone's mailbox. right now you have to buy a third party product. Exchange 2010 integrates it.
say you want failover to another city with all your company's email there. Exchange 2007 and later.
Even the FOSS Exhcange clones don't come close. For a medium to large business it's cheaper to buy Exchange with all the features than pay for add on software and more people to admin it
there are these entities called corporations/companies. they are required to follow a lot of laws and in some cases retain all communications for many years. Exchange makes this easy because it centralizes everything for easier management.
2010 looks more like 2007 R2. Same engine but more features and support for it's new ActiveSync partners, Google and Apple.
the archiving and legal features look nice. right now you have to buy add on products from EMC and other companies. Integrating the SOX features into Exchange will save customers a lot of money.
if your PC is infected no one cares. if your cell phone gets infected by a virus and you can't call 911 in an emergency than Apple is going to pay out a lot of money in a lawsuit.
Android and WinMo are getting app stores. lets see what happens in 12-24 months with those platforms.
i swear there was a story last month how Apple had it in the newest SDK EULA that you can't make jailbroken apps with it. Apple gave up a technical solution and just told people that if you want to write jailbroken apps then do it from scratch and don't use their code
mostly windows/exchange even on the classified stuff
you have to know how the army works. everything is a task, with the more complicated tasks being broken into sub-tasks. everything is assumed to be simple to do since it's just a task.
back in the day game demos came on CD's and then DVD's with magazines. if we go back to the days of too much data and not enough pipe, we'll just go back to the days of getting DVD's mailed to you.
for video we'll just go back to the DVD/Blu-Ray model
video over the internet took off due to the get it now factor. now that mobile devices can play movies we'll go back to having your own DVD's, rip and carry your entertainment with you.
i think their support is crap. every time i call for netbackup support it takes them a week to get back to me. place i work for was scammed into buying netbackup from Sun instead of Veritas years ago.
i'm trying to get the latest media for netbackup and it's insane trying to register just to download it.
we looked at the SL500 a few months ago and it was overpriced. everything Sun sells seems overpriced compared to HP, including the servers.
does this $2.50/gig include backup costs so that if you need data from say 9 months ago they can recover it for you?
everyone can do DR backups, most of the data restores where i work are due to missing data in archive databases and we need to find the raw data again from several years back
the value that intuit and other companies add is they let you type in your data or import it over the internet and they do all the calculations for you and make up all the forms automatically. they also guarantee accuracy
HP and EMC does the same thing. HP will charge you $500 for a 1TB SATA today and we just paid EMC $800 or so per 500GB drive for a bunch of drives.
one nice benefit is the support. HP has a proactive failure warranty. if it flashes and alert that it thinks the drive will fail you call them and you have a new drive arrive by UPS the next day. EMC will come out within 4 hours to replace it.
and they are guaranteed to work with the brand name RAID controller that is the same brand as your server. you're paying for the testing and special drivers knowing that everything you buy will work together and you don't waste time calling support and playing musical telephone
the article is right that in some cases it doesn't matter if a transaction is lost. but in any case where money is involved it's a must. you can't just start a fund from your Oracle or SQL Server savings to pay for mistakes because it will kill your brand and you may lose a lot of future business. and any savings will be eaten up by the extra cost to hire people to solve all the data problems
i've seen this. no constraints on the data that is orginally put in, not enough referential integrity and you get customers opening up a lot of trouble tickets and you end up hiring people to clean up the data every time a mistake is found
no one has a separate CD or box for every copy owned. we buy WIndows Server with every new server purchase but i never see the license. it's all electronic. i just grab the iso from MSDN whenever I need to install a new server and use a CD key we got from MS a few years ago.
Same with every other piece of software we buy. we'll get a license and one media set or just download it from the vendor
and when was this patent filed? Streets and Trips has been around since the 1990's as well. we used to use it in the army to drive from italy to germany
there was a story a month back that Google is licensing Microsoft's ActiveSync for something similar. I bet Push is just ActiveSync with a different name and Apple branded
even though server 2008 has it, i've only used it on Windows 7 beta. the performance is a lot better than the old SMB. downside is all your clients have to be at least Vista SP1
i've been a beta tester for while and it's not bad. from what i've seen they don't filter anything. very nice if you are on vacation.
i had it set up on my laptop and home PC. On vacation i would take pictures of my son and copy the files to the shared folder and automatically sync to my home PC. And it has integrated terminal services where you don't need to add a firewall rule on your home firewall. you can get into your home PC from anywhere on the internet.
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maybe the old MAPI versions. every product cycle MS improves MAPI and adds more features
so which FOSS solution includes all the legal features, DR, and mobile functionality? with Exchange you just point your phone or blackberry to your mailbox and you've got mail. someone loses his phone, you just wipe it remotely over the cell phone network
do the FOSS solutions include failover, replication, archiving, integration with your company's telephone system and a long list of other features?
say you are a 5000 person company and NYC loses electricity again and you have 3000 people in other states that still need to work. with exchange 2007 and later you replicate your mail to a standby server.
It's like the IPhone. the basic parts of a phone are mature like calling, address book, voice mail, etc. it's the apps that make the iphone a killer phone
same thing with exchange. email, calendar and other features are mature. it's features like replicating your email to another city for failover that are killer features now. along with archiving and other legal requirements that are built into the box
if there is a disaster than POP and IMAP are useless and can result in lost data. today if you have a failover you can just check your email on your phone if your PC loses power
if you have an iphone or winmo you can point your phone to a corporate email server and it will download all your email into the phone as long as you have a signal. and the IT department can manage all the phones remotely.
say your hippy marketing exec loses his or her iphone and it has all kinds of data on it. the IT people can just wipe it remotely not caring where it is.
say you have to keep all email for at least 7 years but you don't want it in anyone's mailbox. right now you have to buy a third party product. Exchange 2010 integrates it.
say you want failover to another city with all your company's email there. Exchange 2007 and later.
Even the FOSS Exhcange clones don't come close. For a medium to large business it's cheaper to buy Exchange with all the features than pay for add on software and more people to admin it
there are these entities called corporations/companies. they are required to follow a lot of laws and in some cases retain all communications for many years. Exchange makes this easy because it centralizes everything for easier management.
2010 looks more like 2007 R2. Same engine but more features and support for it's new ActiveSync partners, Google and Apple.
the archiving and legal features look nice. right now you have to buy add on products from EMC and other companies. Integrating the SOX features into Exchange will save customers a lot of money.
yet Intel is earning more money now than it did 15 years ago and it's expenses are also a lot higher.
every big publisher today was an indie developer/publisher 20-30 years ago and grew their business through higher sales.
these days indie publishers have distribution channels that EA and Activision didn't dream of 30 years ago. they built their business the hard way
The phone, ipod, email and Safari apps that run in the background are Apple apps. Apple can make background apps, no one else.
if your PC is infected no one cares. if your cell phone gets infected by a virus and you can't call 911 in an emergency than Apple is going to pay out a lot of money in a lawsuit.
Android and WinMo are getting app stores. lets see what happens in 12-24 months with those platforms.
i swear there was a story last month how Apple had it in the newest SDK EULA that you can't make jailbroken apps with it. Apple gave up a technical solution and just told people that if you want to write jailbroken apps then do it from scratch and don't use their code
mostly windows/exchange even on the classified stuff
you have to know how the army works. everything is a task, with the more complicated tasks being broken into sub-tasks. everything is assumed to be simple to do since it's just a task.
back in the day game demos came on CD's and then DVD's with magazines. if we go back to the days of too much data and not enough pipe, we'll just go back to the days of getting DVD's mailed to you.
for video we'll just go back to the DVD/Blu-Ray model
video over the internet took off due to the get it now factor. now that mobile devices can play movies we'll go back to having your own DVD's, rip and carry your entertainment with you.
last few years Oracle has bought a lot of application companies. BEA, Peoplesoft and a long list of others
i think their support is crap. every time i call for netbackup support it takes them a week to get back to me. place i work for was scammed into buying netbackup from Sun instead of Veritas years ago.
i'm trying to get the latest media for netbackup and it's insane trying to register just to download it.
we looked at the SL500 a few months ago and it was overpriced. everything Sun sells seems overpriced compared to HP, including the servers.
does this $2.50/gig include backup costs so that if you need data from say 9 months ago they can recover it for you?
everyone can do DR backups, most of the data restores where i work are due to missing data in archive databases and we need to find the raw data again from several years back
e-file has been free for years
the value that intuit and other companies add is they let you type in your data or import it over the internet and they do all the calculations for you and make up all the forms automatically. they also guarantee accuracy
HP and EMC does the same thing. HP will charge you $500 for a 1TB SATA today and we just paid EMC $800 or so per 500GB drive for a bunch of drives.
one nice benefit is the support. HP has a proactive failure warranty. if it flashes and alert that it thinks the drive will fail you call them and you have a new drive arrive by UPS the next day. EMC will come out within 4 hours to replace it.
and they are guaranteed to work with the brand name RAID controller that is the same brand as your server. you're paying for the testing and special drivers knowing that everything you buy will work together and you don't waste time calling support and playing musical telephone
When HP first started selling the Proliant DL380 G5 it supported 32GB RAM. With 8GB chips it can now support 64GB.
same here, the memory slots are forward compatible so you can scale up to ridiculous specs and virtualize everything
the article is right that in some cases it doesn't matter if a transaction is lost. but in any case where money is involved it's a must. you can't just start a fund from your Oracle or SQL Server savings to pay for mistakes because it will kill your brand and you may lose a lot of future business. and any savings will be eaten up by the extra cost to hire people to solve all the data problems
i've seen this. no constraints on the data that is orginally put in, not enough referential integrity and you get customers opening up a lot of trouble tickets and you end up hiring people to clean up the data every time a mistake is found
very easy to set up, just outsource all the low paying stuff to contractors
no one has a separate CD or box for every copy owned. we buy WIndows Server with every new server purchase but i never see the license. it's all electronic. i just grab the iso from MSDN whenever I need to install a new server and use a CD key we got from MS a few years ago.
Same with every other piece of software we buy. we'll get a license and one media set or just download it from the vendor
and when was this patent filed? Streets and Trips has been around since the 1990's as well. we used to use it in the army to drive from italy to germany
MS Virtual Earth has been around since the 1990's. How long has Tom Tom been around? Garmin has used Virtual Earth for it's GPS products.
I'm willing to bet Microsoft's case is a lot stronger than TomTom's
there was a story a month back that Google is licensing Microsoft's ActiveSync for something similar. I bet Push is just ActiveSync with a different name and Apple branded
even though server 2008 has it, i've only used it on Windows 7 beta. the performance is a lot better than the old SMB. downside is all your clients have to be at least Vista SP1
i've been a beta tester for while and it's not bad. from what i've seen they don't filter anything. very nice if you are on vacation.
i had it set up on my laptop and home PC. On vacation i would take pictures of my son and copy the files to the shared folder and automatically sync to my home PC. And it has integrated terminal services where you don't need to add a firewall rule on your home firewall. you can get into your home PC from anywhere on the internet.