There is a natural reason that species die off. Whether it's weakness, climate change, etc: it's only natural that things evolve and species no longer exist. It is, however, not natural to play God and maintain or revive a dying species.
"Enterprise-grade messaging" goes far beyond what Citadel will ever offer. IMAP is far advanced beyond POP3, but has a long way to go when compared to Microsoft's MAPI.
Exchange 5.5 and 2000 are leaps and bounds ahead of the industry in terms of messaging. Issues I see w/ Exchange architecture:
-Scalibility. An average Exchange server can only server upwards of 2,000 users until you reach the physical limits of what disk arrays can server.
-Administration. An Exchange server is far more complex than a POP server.
-Proprietary. It's really too bad that so much of Exchange is closed off and inaccessible for 3rd party vendors. How can we access the MTA data before it's processed by Exchange? You can't. What about "seeing" what the store does with your message before handing to the MTA? You don't. It's really unfortunate and I think Microsoft would be wise to open up the innards and let some outside people have a look. As always, there would be some real innovation and Microsoft could either 1) buy the innovator, or 2) use the idea themselves. It would only build on an already great product.
Obvious advantages to MAPI & Exchange:
-Collaboration. Calendaring, tasks, chat, etc. It's all in there and works fantastic.
-Industry. You won't get fired for being the IT guy that chose to go with Microsoft.
Assuming all things are equal, yes, only those who have a partner/spouse would benefit from replacing daycare with dollars. However, by offering daycare to *all* employees, you are effectively giving something to only those who have children!
So a better statement -- if you are going to offer daycare, offer the option of dollars as an alternative.
JoeF
Rather than give us the perqs of daycare, why not pay us the additional dollars so we can afford to have our spouse/partner can stay home and raise the kids?
I have noticed a lot of young couples are going back to this "old-fashioned" way of family life.
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There is a natural reason that species die off. Whether it's weakness, climate change, etc: it's only natural that things evolve and species no longer exist. It is, however, not natural to play God and maintain or revive a dying species.
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"Enterprise-grade messaging" goes far beyond what Citadel will ever offer. IMAP is far advanced beyond POP3, but has a long way to go when compared to Microsoft's MAPI.
Exchange 5.5 and 2000 are leaps and bounds ahead of the industry in terms of messaging. Issues I see w/ Exchange architecture:
-Scalibility. An average Exchange server can only server upwards of 2,000 users until you reach the physical limits of what disk arrays can server.
-Administration. An Exchange server is far more complex than a POP server.
-Proprietary. It's really too bad that so much of Exchange is closed off and inaccessible for 3rd party vendors. How can we access the MTA data before it's processed by Exchange? You can't. What about "seeing" what the store does with your message before handing to the MTA? You don't. It's really unfortunate and I think Microsoft would be wise to open up the innards and let some outside people have a look. As always, there would be some real innovation and Microsoft could either 1) buy the innovator, or 2) use the idea themselves. It would only build on an already great product.
Obvious advantages to MAPI & Exchange:
-Collaboration. Calendaring, tasks, chat, etc. It's all in there and works fantastic.
-Industry. You won't get fired for being the IT guy that chose to go with Microsoft.
--Joe
Assuming all things are equal, yes, only those who have a partner/spouse would benefit from replacing daycare with dollars. However, by offering daycare to *all* employees, you are effectively giving something to only those who have children! So a better statement -- if you are going to offer daycare, offer the option of dollars as an alternative. JoeF
For those of us with a spouse/partner:
Rather than give us the perqs of daycare, why not pay us the additional dollars so we can afford to have our spouse/partner can stay home and raise the kids?
I have noticed a lot of young couples are going back to this "old-fashioned" way of family life.
-JoeF