While their may be no substitute for expertise, there certainly is a good substitute for time spent recreating the wheel and that's why I ended up with a Barracuda on my network. I previously managed two MailScanner units and spent a great deal of time doing maintenance and upkeep. Since I dropped the Barracuda in the network I've spent very little. E-mail spam filtering has become one less thing I have to worry about and while the interface could use some work, it is still simple enough that any task I need to do like trace a message, etc. is quick enough that I never have to go sorting through maillog files and try and find out what happened to a specific message again.
Time saved = time used on other important tasks within the company. Don't reinvent the wheel.
I was doing an OEM deal for my employer at Research Tringle Park (RTP) near Raleigh North Carolina with IBM. RTP's entire server development group works out of RTP, I was shown off the blade center before it was functional etc.
Oddly enough! No ethernet. Still token-ring, why give up on your own technology?! This great resource center of hard work and tech invention was most likely the ugliest most run-down facility one could possibly expect.
I would say the time frame for an ENTIRE move from Microsoft desktops INTERNALLY is sometime after 2005.
No one bothers to mention that a lot of default installs for Windows 2003 Server plans include web services even though they may only be using the machine as part of an active directory or PDC.
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While their may be no substitute for expertise, there certainly is a good substitute for time spent recreating the wheel and that's why I ended up with a Barracuda on my network. I previously managed two MailScanner units and spent a great deal of time doing maintenance and upkeep. Since I dropped the Barracuda in the network I've spent very little. E-mail spam filtering has become one less thing I have to worry about and while the interface could use some work, it is still simple enough that any task I need to do like trace a message, etc. is quick enough that I never have to go sorting through maillog files and try and find out what happened to a specific message again. Time saved = time used on other important tasks within the company. Don't reinvent the wheel.
I was doing an OEM deal for my employer at Research Tringle Park (RTP) near Raleigh North Carolina with IBM. RTP's entire server development group works out of RTP, I was shown off the blade center before it was functional etc. Oddly enough! No ethernet. Still token-ring, why give up on your own technology?! This great resource center of hard work and tech invention was most likely the ugliest most run-down facility one could possibly expect. I would say the time frame for an ENTIRE move from Microsoft desktops INTERNALLY is sometime after 2005.
No one bothers to mention that a lot of default installs for Windows 2003 Server plans include web services even though they may only be using the machine as part of an active directory or PDC.