While this probably isn't a brand that people search out, it's a solid monitor that has three digital inputs: 1 HDMI, 2 DVI; and it has several analog inputs: 1 vga, 2 component, 1 svideo, 1 composite. All three digital inputs have HDCP, which I know people may baulk at, but the bottom line is that you'll need that support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players. My cable box is only capable of 1080i, but I have connected two of my PC's to it and get true 1920 x 1080 resolution, which was reason enough for me to buy it. I had a 10 year-old CRT-based TV and wanted a new HDTV I could hang on the wall to eliminte my entertainment center. When you can get a 42" LCD (no burn-in worries for console or computer use) with 1080p output for a bit over $1500 US, why on earth would you spend more $$ to get something with lower resolution ? Maybe there are very few things that use 1080p right now, but I expect to use this for more than 5 years, and I'm sure in 2 years it will be common place. I consider $1500 to be a huge (bordering on excessive) expense for a TV, so I want it to last a long time. So having 1080p will not leave me wishing I had higher resolution down the line. It's less expensive than most other brands, even in the 37" range, and prices keep dropping....
I work for a large company and we have a number of VMWare Workstation licenses. I downloaded the vmplayer today and used my existing VMWare workstation image with it (W2K image on Linux host). It started up fine. I then plugged the USB connector for my Kyocera 7135 Palm phone into my Linux system and hit the hotsync button. A "button" appeared accross the menu bar of the VMWare window with the title of the USB device (something like "Kyocera phone"). I could click on the botton to toggle as to whether or not VMWare was "connected" to the device so the guest OS could use it.
What I don't remember is if the focus of the window determines whether or not it initially shows up as attached or disconnected. I believe the first time I did it, the hot sync with my phone started automatically. The second time I did it, I had to click on the soft botton on the menu bar to attach to the USB device. This may have been the result of my window focus at the time I hit the hot sync button.
I ran an InterMail MX system for about 3 years for a national ISP.
The company that sells InterMail was called Software.com at the time... and then they merged with phone.com and the combined entity was renamed Openwave. They provide many of the browsers used on cell phones... check an old phone and it probably says "phone.com" and a newer one will say "openwave".
I used version 4.x of their InterMail Mx product primarily and had a little experience with version 5.0. It is a fairly complex system but is obviously very powerful. The system used an Oracle database for all user information (LDAP on the front-end, with the data stored in an Oracle DB on the back-end) and also used an Oracle database for each Message Store server. For example, if an E-Mail message was sent to 2000 users on your system, one instance of the message was saved to disk (in a hashed directory structure) and 2000 "links" were stored in the Oracle DB. Once all 2000 links were deleted (IE all users deleted the message) then a garbage collection process would remove the message file. This can obviously save a lot of space on a busy system.
The server scaled by adding Message Store Servers (MSS) and front-end POP/IMAP/Web servers. The front-end servers are typically setup for load-balancing with F5 BigIPs or the like. The back end servers (directory/ldap server, MSS servers) are less redundant and require a cluster/HA solution. We had a 3 to 1 fail-over for our directory server and two MSS servers to one stand-by system. This was at least US $2M of hardware by the time you added an EMC Symmetrix for multiple TB of storage. This was a while ago and you may not need to use a tier 1 storage vendor... but when you're talking 1 million users and 99,9% uptime, you can't just throw something together and cross your fingers.
OpenWave also offered an InterMail Kx solution (thousands of users rather than millions of users) that was less complicated. Below that was post.office.
The price at the time was negotiable and was generally based on the number of users. Their support was generally quite good.
They appear to call the product Email MX now:
http://www.openwave.com/us/products/wireline/email _mx/index.htm
The main reason companies choose (or stay with) MS Exchange really comes down to these two things:
1) Integration of the Windows Domain with the E-Mail account (often single sign on).
2) Integrated Calendar
I'm not sure if Openwave offers something comparable now with their product, but I'd much rather run a system with that many users on a Unix platform than on a ton of Windoze systems. As other posters have mentioned, if it is properly architected... many different options are possible.
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While this probably isn't a brand that people search out, it's a solid monitor that has three digital inputs: 1 HDMI, 2 DVI; and it has several analog inputs: 1 vga, 2 component, 1 svideo, 1 composite. All three digital inputs have HDCP, which I know people may baulk at, but the bottom line is that you'll need that support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players. My cable box is only capable of 1080i, but I have connected two of my PC's to it and get true 1920 x 1080 resolution, which was reason enough for me to buy it. I had a 10 year-old CRT-based TV and wanted a new HDTV I could hang on the wall to eliminte my entertainment center. When you can get a 42" LCD (no burn-in worries for console or computer use) with 1080p output for a bit over $1500 US, why on earth would you spend more $$ to get something with lower resolution ? Maybe there are very few things that use 1080p right now, but I expect to use this for more than 5 years, and I'm sure in 2 years it will be common place. I consider $1500 to be a huge (bordering on excessive) expense for a TV, so I want it to last a long time. So having 1080p will not leave me wishing I had higher resolution down the line. It's less expensive than most other brands, even in the 37" range, and prices keep dropping....
I work for a large company and we have a number of VMWare Workstation licenses. I downloaded the vmplayer today and used my existing VMWare workstation image with it (W2K image on Linux host). It started up fine. I then plugged the USB connector for my Kyocera 7135 Palm phone into my Linux system and hit the hotsync button. A "button" appeared accross the menu bar of the VMWare window with the title of the USB device (something like "Kyocera phone"). I could click on the botton to toggle as to whether or not VMWare was "connected" to the device so the guest OS could use it. What I don't remember is if the focus of the window determines whether or not it initially shows up as attached or disconnected. I believe the first time I did it, the hot sync with my phone started automatically. The second time I did it, I had to click on the soft botton on the menu bar to attach to the USB device. This may have been the result of my window focus at the time I hit the hot sync button.
I ran an InterMail MX system for about 3 years for a national ISP. The company that sells InterMail was called Software.com at the time... and then they merged with phone.com and the combined entity was renamed Openwave. They provide many of the browsers used on cell phones... check an old phone and it probably says "phone.com" and a newer one will say "openwave". I used version 4.x of their InterMail Mx product primarily and had a little experience with version 5.0. It is a fairly complex system but is obviously very powerful. The system used an Oracle database for all user information (LDAP on the front-end, with the data stored in an Oracle DB on the back-end) and also used an Oracle database for each Message Store server. For example, if an E-Mail message was sent to 2000 users on your system, one instance of the message was saved to disk (in a hashed directory structure) and 2000 "links" were stored in the Oracle DB. Once all 2000 links were deleted (IE all users deleted the message) then a garbage collection process would remove the message file. This can obviously save a lot of space on a busy system. The server scaled by adding Message Store Servers (MSS) and front-end POP/IMAP/Web servers. The front-end servers are typically setup for load-balancing with F5 BigIPs or the like. The back end servers (directory/ldap server, MSS servers) are less redundant and require a cluster/HA solution. We had a 3 to 1 fail-over for our directory server and two MSS servers to one stand-by system. This was at least US $2M of hardware by the time you added an EMC Symmetrix for multiple TB of storage. This was a while ago and you may not need to use a tier 1 storage vendor... but when you're talking 1 million users and 99,9% uptime, you can't just throw something together and cross your fingers. OpenWave also offered an InterMail Kx solution (thousands of users rather than millions of users) that was less complicated. Below that was post.office. The price at the time was negotiable and was generally based on the number of users. Their support was generally quite good. They appear to call the product Email MX now: http://www.openwave.com/us/products/wireline/email _mx/index.htm
The main reason companies choose (or stay with) MS Exchange really comes down to these two things:
1) Integration of the Windows Domain with the E-Mail account (often single sign on).
2) Integrated Calendar
I'm not sure if Openwave offers something comparable now with their product, but I'd much rather run a system with that many users on a Unix platform than on a ton of Windoze systems. As other posters have mentioned, if it is properly architected... many different options are possible.