Better yet, on Windows they could allow T-Bird/Seamonkey/Mozilla to import email and settings from something other than Outlook/Outlook Express/ Eudora.
Until the email client can import from other previous versions (Say Seamonkey can import Mozilla & Tbird, and T-bird can import from other versions of itself) by using a widget, not twenty manual steps, the email client is a big no-no.
I know that the import widget exists, because it was included in one of the Mozilla builds - a long time ago. Unfortionatly, there was a decision to remove the import from Mozilla function. A very stupid one.
You need to add the price of Outlook to the price of StarOffice to make the comparison. The vast majority of small offices buy the MS stack for two reasons:
1) Support is cheap: you can find a monkey-me to fix (find the right patch) by throwing a brick.
2) The stack includes Exchange/office: Many Word-Processors & Spreadsheets, etc..., that are roughly the same for most purposes. But MS lookOut includes decent scheduling built in & that they are used to using.
You can throw VB scripted crap in, but those are the biggies for the Small Business sector.
The two complaints mentioned are 1) US and European companies snapped up all the good TLDs; 2) US and European companies have snapped up all the IP addresses, leaving only scraps.
my $.02:
1) All the TLDs are snapped up only in European languages. This should piss off basically no one. Why, every country has its' own TLD. To whit, American techies had to use www.theregister.co.uk for years before they decided to make a www.theregister.com version. Why, because everyone in the UK was used to typing.co.uk to look for UK business/media/whatever. The main people pissed off by this are prob. big Latin-American media companies that want a.com name taken by someone in Spain. They were late to the party & the good beer is gone. If they don't want to bring their own beer (country based URL), too bad.
2) All the IP blocks are snapped up by Europeans & North-Americans. I'd say they are late to the party, too bad - but it's a legitimate complaint. Without IP addresses, they can't do what they want. However, what they really should do is mandate IPv6 so that there are more blocks to go around. The people who have blocks now don't want to pay for it, but if the rest of the world want's it - everyone will have to go along (or loose out on business if they don't interoperate well). I mean, really, how many addresses are lost by using a class A (127.x.y.z) block for loopback?
Hey, look - shiny toy: I want it!!! If they really wanted, they could use new.net and IPv6. Waaaaaaah!
To reiterate: The name of the game is reduced user permissions. The biggest problem with windows security (second biggest?) is that non doman users are Administrator by default. This means that any vulnerability can be exploited to install files where they should not be.
Reduced user permissions (aka: creating a user account with permissions of "User") means that the user cannot install files to/windows or/program files, or write global registry keys.
Lets review: Administrator/root accounts have good authentication measures and are not used for everyday use. User accounts have limited ability to foobar your system, and ARE used for everyday work.
Unless you run Knoppix/ubuntu from CD/DVD, in which case just reboot.
If they can do this for a mere 10K, when it took MS more like (Carl Segan voice) "Billyons and Billions," - can someone get me a Ferarri (and insurance) for like $.05?
We would also pay more for airline tickets (Re: Delta, Northwest, United,...) because we would have reasonable allocation of flights. Not to mention no flights to little cities that pay for hubs/connector flights to worthless markets. (but it makes sense for the cities, because they would have no transportation otherwise.)
We would not realy have roads, because they are partially paid for by gas taxes. If you live in Europe, you would have less mass transportation: because most European governments tax the hell out of gas for things like that & other public services.
Also, if you live in Europe, you would loose public health care. It may suck, compared to a good American Health Plan, but it is much better than nothing (which many americans have).
If you live in an area dependant on Tourism (in the US at least), you would not get any state help in building Levys (in New Orleans), or rebuilding beaches (any F*cking beach town in the NE US) where the erosion from a few noreasters would wipe out the boardwalk......
*Ducks bad Karma* (perhaps)
One really bad example of govt. malfeasance does not mean that all government involvement is bad. (Unless you are Republican & beleive that the government should only help big business & screw everyone else. In which cast this tax is prob. good.)
Nah,
MS will likely only build for x86/64. I expect that the requirements on this will be bloated. Combine that with the fact that their business is selling operating systems, and there will be a push for new versions.
It is interesting that their domain has so few spam-mails every three minutes. My reading of the map (at 9:38 US-EST) is that they have about 20 spam (or 2000 if it is really multiplied by 100). My domain, used for about five addresses, gets one about every minute.
I would think that a domain that is actually used by people would get a lot of spam. As it is, there are too few points of reference to see where spam generally comes from. Perhaps making the time covered user configurable would help. I really tend to doubt that noone in asia is spamming at the moment - expecially considering many spam farms are completely automated.
"According to the company statement, SpaceX has sold Falcon 9 to a U.S. government customer. SpaceX still plans to make Falcon 5 available in late 2007."
If nothing else, SpaceX is having a problem keeping it up when people talk about them (it?), in a slashing manner.
The problem of this type of security is that it attempts to replace thought on the part of all involved. (see zug.com about credit card fun)
When I and my wife got a joint account, the bank swapped our pictures on our atm cards. We look nothing alike, each being easly taken for our respective genders. I used mine (with her picture) for six months without anyone even glancing at the picture. Eventually, when I got passport photos at a local picture processing shop: the clerk looked at the card and refused to process it.
Literally after hundreds of transactions including a good number in the $250/300 range. Unfortionatly "Security" (tm) is everyones job, but no one wants to do it.
The parent to this makes several claims & bashes the developer. Mod the parent down:
Most of his claims are unsubstantiated:
1)The developer got free advertising: This statement is true in a minimal way. Not like going to http://games.briggster.com/ though
2) An insignificant amount of bandwith used: This statement is unsubstantiated: There is no mention of actual bandwith use; just that Fuddruckers was creating ~10% of traffic.
3) The developer chose to do something malicious: True, but funny. Although the developer may be vegan - and thinking that Fuddruckers is incredibly malicious. (I doubt it)
4) The developer takes others content and does not give credit & is hypoticritical): This is malicious and unsubstantiated claim. It needs examples to be made, and it should get the author modded down. I went to http://games.briggster.com/ and there is no evidence that he has stolen any code. In fact it's a crappy page with some games on it.
I am suspecting that this is the webdeveloper who just got canned from Fuddruckers - although his boss told him to do it.
Making an investment to get 100% of a small, but growing, market is a potential goldmine. Fighting to get 2% of a bit market with the same investment is not.
F-Secure allready has stuff for windows, but that market is really held by Symanted/Norton, McAffe, Trend; CA. Everyone else is fighting over something like 10% of the market. (Trend claimes something like 30% of the server and gateway market, Symantec has something like 50% of the desktop market (and a big server presence), and McAffe has a fairly big chunk of both the desktop; Server; gateway markets.)
Making a virus scanner for a unserved market has a potentially big payoff. It probably takes minimal investment to make a scanner for the few (what ten) cellphone viruses that exist. Scare everyone with a virus infection in a few sports stadiums & you could get big share - not to mention market mover lead for when the market grows.
Kudos to the guys (dorks) who came up with this. F-Secure may get on the map for something other that virus-scare press-releases now.
--all opinions are usually someone elses', and copyrighted. Pay up now...
Let me see now (Jon Stuart grin), the police haven't learned how "alternative" browsers store data. Users of these "alternative" browsers even have been known to "flush" their data caches. This , um, "flushing" is a suspicious behavior - AND these "alternative" browsers are resistant to spyware that we normally use to "spy" on our "citizens."
I say, if these "citizens" don't want to be "spied" on, they are SUSPICIOUS! SEND THEM TO GUANTANAMO!
You need to install Solaris Express to build it (or do it from linux, or use SE as a binary.
You need to register to get Solaris Express
If I'm going to try it out, I don't want to build it ala Gentoo. I want to put it on, try out its' xyz functionalaity, and evaluate if I want to use it. Not jump through hoops (SUSE update).
[Federal Register: August 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 149)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 44878-44879] LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 202 [Docket No. RM 2005-9] Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking SUMMARY:
The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work. DATES:
Comments are due no later than August 22, 2005. Reply comments are due no later than September 7, 2005. ADDRESSES:
If hand delivered by a private party, an original and five copies of any comment should be brought to Room LM-401 of the James Madison Memorial Building between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and the envelope should be addressed as follows: Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, James Madison Memorial Building, Room LM-401, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20559-6000. If hand delivered by a commercial courier, an original and five copies of any comment must be delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site located at Second and D Streets, NE., Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The envelope should be addressed as follows: Copyright Office General Counsel, Room LM-403, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. If sent by mail, an original and five copies of any comment should be addressed to: Copyright GC/ I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024-0400. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery services such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, etc., due to delays in processing receipt of such deliveries. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David O. Carson, General Counsel, or Charlotte Douglass, Principal Legal Advisor, P.O. Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024-0400, Telephone (202) 707-8380. Telefax: (202) 707-8366. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In accordance with the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 (the ART Act), Title I of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, Pub. L. No. 109-9, 119 Stat. 218, the Copyright Office recently proposed implementing regulations for preregistration of eligible copyright claims. 70 FR 42286 (July 22, 2005). To be eligible for preregistration, a work must be unpublished, in the process of being prepared for commercial distribution, and in a class of works that the Register of Copyrights determines has had a history of copyright infringement.
Section 104 of the ART Act directs that preregistration procedures must be in place by October 24, 2005. 17 U.S.C. 408(f)(1). To comply with this time frame and to facilitate efficient processing of preregistration claims, inter alia, the proposed rule calls for filing such claims by electronic means only. At this point in the process of
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developing the Copyright Office's system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Filers of preregistration applications will be able to employ these Internet Explorer browsers successfully. Support for Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of these browsers may experience problems when filing claims.
In order to ensure that preregistration can be implemented in a smooth
I assume that they are combining web-monkey with Honeypot. (not that they are somking anything.)
Seriously, MS has set up a bunch of machines that actively surf the web trolling for vulnerabilities. I guess it's the "If we can't code securely, at least we can find the holes to plug." theory. Considering IE, it's not a bad idea.
It would be nice if they shared the exploits with everyone, at least once a patch exists, though.
OK, good job Microsoft: Now if you could implement a "least privileges" model by default....
the hearsay mill says openexchange. You will prob have to compile ldap for it though. (Man, I wish they would get pre-built packages for it. I'm pretty sure it was opened like six months ago...)
If you envision needing lots of servers, you go open source: It may not be "the best" for service, but it scales financially in a way that purchasing stuff does not.
If you are a small shop, with part time tech support that is paid on a per-incident basis - MS is a good solution. Why? Because you avoid loss of productivity for a learning curve (for apps you have), and because if your tech gets hit by a bus - lots of monkeys can do the job mimimally.
I may love Open Office, and use it at home and work. However, my wife does not like it for working at home (and I have to provide her MSO), and I have to switch to MSO for *most* client site use. (They have what they have, and are not going to change untill forced to with a big heavy cluebar.)
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Better yet, on Windows they could allow T-Bird/Seamonkey/Mozilla to import email and settings from something other than Outlook/Outlook Express/ Eudora.
Until the email client can import from other previous versions (Say Seamonkey can import Mozilla & Tbird, and T-bird can import from other versions of itself) by using a widget, not twenty manual steps, the email client is a big no-no.
I know that the import widget exists, because it was included in one of the Mozilla builds - a long time ago. Unfortionatly, there was a decision to remove the import from Mozilla function. A very stupid one.
I can't beleive that no one has pointed to it yet: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0rc/index.html
This is not my Sig.: Give me $.02 anyway, I want it.
You need to add the price of Outlook to the price of StarOffice to make the comparison. The vast majority of small offices buy the MS stack for two reasons:
1) Support is cheap: you can find a monkey-me to fix (find the right patch) by throwing a brick.
2) The stack includes Exchange/office: Many Word-Processors & Spreadsheets, etc..., that are roughly the same for most purposes. But MS lookOut includes decent scheduling built in & that they are used to using.
You can throw VB scripted crap in, but those are the biggies for the Small Business sector.
- It's my $.02, and I want it back
The two complaints mentioned are 1) US and European companies snapped up all the good TLDs; 2) US and European companies have snapped up all the IP addresses, leaving only scraps.
.co.uk to look for UK business/media/whatever. The main people pissed off by this are prob. big Latin-American media companies that want a .com name taken by someone in Spain. They were late to the party & the good beer is gone. If they don't want to bring their own beer (country based URL), too bad.
my $.02:
1) All the TLDs are snapped up only in European languages. This should piss off basically no one. Why, every country has its' own TLD. To whit, American techies had to use www.theregister.co.uk for years before they decided to make a www.theregister.com version. Why, because everyone in the UK was used to typing
2) All the IP blocks are snapped up by Europeans & North-Americans. I'd say they are late to the party, too bad - but it's a legitimate complaint. Without IP addresses, they can't do what they want. However, what they really should do is mandate IPv6 so that there are more blocks to go around. The people who have blocks now don't want to pay for it, but if the rest of the world want's it - everyone will have to go along (or loose out on business if they don't interoperate well). I mean, really, how many addresses are lost by using a class A (127.x.y.z) block for loopback?
Hey, look - shiny toy: I want it!!! If they really wanted, they could use new.net and IPv6. Waaaaaaah!
To reiterate: The name of the game is reduced user permissions. The biggest problem with windows security (second biggest?) is that non doman users are Administrator by default. This means that any vulnerability can be exploited to install files where they should not be.
/windows or /program files, or write global registry keys.
Reduced user permissions (aka: creating a user account with permissions of "User") means that the user cannot install files to
Lets review: Administrator/root accounts have good authentication measures and are not used for everyday use. User accounts have limited ability to foobar your system, and ARE used for everyday work.
Unless you run Knoppix/ubuntu from CD/DVD, in which case just reboot.
Ahhh, Chaos: The fifth horseman of the apocolypse. BSD is thy name.
If they can do this for a mere 10K, when it took MS more like (Carl Segan voice) "Billyons and Billions," - can someone get me a Ferarri (and insurance) for like $.05?
Lets see:
...) because we would have reasonable allocation of flights. Not to mention no flights to little cities that pay for hubs/connector flights to worthless markets. (but it makes sense for the cities, because they would have no transportation otherwise.)
.....
We would also pay more for airline tickets (Re: Delta, Northwest, United,
We would not realy have roads, because they are partially paid for by gas taxes. If you live in Europe, you would have less mass transportation: because most European governments tax the hell out of gas for things like that & other public services.
Also, if you live in Europe, you would loose public health care. It may suck, compared to a good American Health Plan, but it is much better than nothing (which many americans have).
If you live in an area dependant on Tourism (in the US at least), you would not get any state help in building Levys (in New Orleans), or rebuilding beaches (any F*cking beach town in the NE US) where the erosion from a few noreasters would wipe out the boardwalk.
*Ducks bad Karma* (perhaps)
One really bad example of govt. malfeasance does not mean that all government involvement is bad. (Unless you are Republican & beleive that the government should only help big business & screw everyone else. In which cast this tax is prob. good.)
Nah, MS will likely only build for x86/64. I expect that the requirements on this will be bloated. Combine that with the fact that their business is selling operating systems, and there will be a push for new versions.
Just like Windows NT. You could run it on PPC/Alpha (with no available programs) for a little-while. Then there was one.
What are they going to do, other than try to bring their DRM to Apple?
It is interesting that their domain has so few spam-mails every three minutes. My reading of the map (at 9:38 US-EST) is that they have about 20 spam (or 2000 if it is really multiplied by 100). My domain, used for about five addresses, gets one about every minute.
I would think that a domain that is actually used by people would get a lot of spam. As it is, there are too few points of reference to see where spam generally comes from. Perhaps making the time covered user configurable would help. I really tend to doubt that noone in asia is spamming at the moment - expecially considering many spam farms are completely automated.
Interesting though....
Perhaps an inability to get it up?
"According to the company statement, SpaceX has sold Falcon 9 to a U.S. government customer. SpaceX still plans to make Falcon 5 available in late 2007."
If nothing else, SpaceX is having a problem keeping it up when people talk about them (it?), in a slashing manner.
not to enforce/validate who you are. I beleive that the seller is supposed to validate your identity with other documents. (not that it is done.)
well then, how about: |more or |less?
The problem of this type of security is that it attempts to replace thought on the part of all involved. (see zug.com about credit card fun)
When I and my wife got a joint account, the bank swapped our pictures on our atm cards. We look nothing alike, each being easly taken for our respective genders. I used mine (with her picture) for six months without anyone even glancing at the picture. Eventually, when I got passport photos at a local picture processing shop: the clerk looked at the card and refused to process it.
Literally after hundreds of transactions including a good number in the $250/300 range. Unfortionatly "Security" (tm) is everyones job, but no one wants to do it.
The parent to this makes several claims & bashes the developer. Mod the parent down:
Most of his claims are unsubstantiated:
1)The developer got free advertising: This statement is true in a minimal way. Not like going to http://games.briggster.com/ though
2) An insignificant amount of bandwith used: This statement is unsubstantiated: There is no mention of actual bandwith use; just that Fuddruckers was creating ~10% of traffic.
3) The developer chose to do something malicious: True, but funny. Although the developer may be vegan - and thinking that Fuddruckers is incredibly malicious. (I doubt it)
4) The developer takes others content and does not give credit & is hypoticritical): This is malicious and unsubstantiated claim. It needs examples to be made, and it should get the author modded down. I went to http://games.briggster.com/ and there is no evidence that he has stolen any code. In fact it's a crappy page with some games on it.
I am suspecting that this is the webdeveloper who just got canned from Fuddruckers - although his boss told him to do it.
Making an investment to get 100% of a small, but growing, market is a potential goldmine. Fighting to get 2% of a bit market with the same investment is not.
F-Secure allready has stuff for windows, but that market is really held by Symanted/Norton, McAffe, Trend; CA. Everyone else is fighting over something like 10% of the market. (Trend claimes something like 30% of the server and gateway market, Symantec has something like 50% of the desktop market (and a big server presence), and McAffe has a fairly big chunk of both the desktop; Server; gateway markets.)
Making a virus scanner for a unserved market has a potentially big payoff. It probably takes minimal investment to make a scanner for the few (what ten) cellphone viruses that exist. Scare everyone with a virus infection in a few sports stadiums & you could get big share - not to mention market mover lead for when the market grows.
Kudos to the guys (dorks) who came up with this. F-Secure may get on the map for something other that virus-scare press-releases now.
--all opinions are usually someone elses', and copyrighted. Pay up now...
Let me see now (Jon Stuart grin), the police haven't learned how "alternative" browsers store data. Users of these "alternative" browsers even have been known to "flush" their data caches. This , um, "flushing" is a suspicious behavior - AND these "alternative" browsers are resistant to spyware that we normally use to "spy" on our "citizens."
I say, if these "citizens" don't want to be "spied" on, they are SUSPICIOUS! SEND THEM TO GUANTANAMO!
Meanwhile, in Soviet Russa...
Site is slashed. Coral Cache anyone?
You need to install Solaris Express to build it (or do it from linux, or use SE as a binary.
You need to register to get Solaris Express
If I'm going to try it out, I don't want to build it ala Gentoo. I want to put it on, try out its' xyz functionalaity, and evaluate if I want to use it. Not jump through hoops (SUSE update).
PS: The PCIXCC meets or exceeds all NIST requirements for a secure encryption device. Buy one
[Federal Register: August 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 149)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 44878-44879]
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 202
[Docket No. RM 2005-9]
Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking
SUMMARY:
The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.
DATES:
Comments are due no later than August 22, 2005. Reply comments are due no later than September 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES:
If hand delivered by a private party, an original and five copies of any comment should be brought to Room LM-401 of the James Madison Memorial Building between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and the envelope should be addressed as follows: Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, James Madison Memorial Building, Room LM-401, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20559-6000. If hand delivered by a commercial courier, an original and five copies of any comment must be delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site located at Second and D Streets, NE., Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The envelope should be addressed as follows: Copyright Office General Counsel, Room LM-403, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. If sent by mail, an original and five copies of any comment should be addressed to: Copyright GC/ I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024-0400. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery services such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, etc., due to delays in processing receipt of such deliveries.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David O. Carson, General Counsel, or Charlotte Douglass, Principal Legal Advisor, P.O. Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024-0400, Telephone (202) 707-8380. Telefax: (202) 707-8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In accordance with the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 (the ART Act), Title I of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, Pub. L. No. 109-9, 119 Stat. 218, the Copyright Office recently proposed implementing regulations for preregistration of eligible copyright claims. 70 FR 42286 (July 22, 2005). To be eligible for preregistration, a work must be unpublished, in the process of being prepared for commercial distribution, and in a class of works that the Register of Copyrights determines has had a history of copyright infringement.
Section 104 of the ART Act directs that preregistration procedures must be in place by October 24, 2005. 17 U.S.C. 408(f)(1). To comply with this time frame and to facilitate efficient processing of preregistration claims, inter alia, the proposed rule calls for filing such claims by electronic means only. At this point in the process of
[[Page 44879]]
developing the Copyright Office's system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Filers of preregistration applications will be able to employ these Internet Explorer browsers successfully. Support for Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of these browsers may experience problems when filing claims.
In order to ensure that preregistration can be implemented in a smooth
I assume that they are combining web-monkey with Honeypot. (not that they are somking anything.)
Seriously, MS has set up a bunch of machines that actively surf the web trolling for vulnerabilities. I guess it's the "If we can't code securely, at least we can find the holes to plug." theory. Considering IE, it's not a bad idea.
It would be nice if they shared the exploits with everyone, at least once a patch exists, though.
OK, good job Microsoft: Now if you could implement a "least privileges" model by default....
the hearsay mill says openexchange. You will prob have to compile ldap for it though. (Man, I wish they would get pre-built packages for it. I'm pretty sure it was opened like six months ago...)
If you envision needing lots of servers, you go open source: It may not be "the best" for service, but it scales financially in a way that purchasing stuff does not.
If you are a small shop, with part time tech support that is paid on a per-incident basis - MS is a good solution. Why? Because you avoid loss of productivity for a learning curve (for apps you have), and because if your tech gets hit by a bus - lots of monkeys can do the job mimimally.
I may love Open Office, and use it at home and work. However, my wife does not like it for working at home (and I have to provide her MSO), and I have to switch to MSO for *most* client site use. (They have what they have, and are not going to change untill forced to with a big heavy cluebar.)