RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Money + MU = bad

["Heivilin, Jim" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spurling, Shannon 
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Money + MU = bad
> 
> Would here be a good place to insert a snide comment on the 
> University/Hospital's complete disregard for fiscal matters? =)
> Rick
> 
<snip>
> Actualy, the migration to Exchange wasn't exactly driven by staff 
> either.... Several evaluations of the exchange platform pointed out 
<snip>
> and I doubt they would let it happen.
> 
As a general rule I usually delete-without-reading most of the far
reaching discussions you guys have here but I saw the subject and budget
concerns caused me to read this one.  I always have a few comments when
people start poking at the email folks since I've watched from the
sidelines for quite awhile now.  

Point 1. 
Exchange with the problems it has is still better than ccMail.  Which is
not to say that ccMail is a *bad* program, but rather than having a
hundred post offices, each with three hundred users is WAY beyond the
scope of what the program was designed to do in the first place.  It was
intended to be a small business email system with maybe 10 or 15 post
offices with  a 100(?) users on each.  (my numbers may be off, that was
a long time ago and I was never the ccMail expert anyway)  We weren't
using it the way it was designed so it shouldn't be a surprise that it
didn't work very well. 

Point 2. 
Our exchange setup now has one set of servers and 50+k users in the
global address book.  From what I understand we have one of the largest
implementations of it anywhere.  I had heard that we were told Microsoft
didn't recommend we do things the way we have.  So, again, we seem not
to be using the product the way it was designed and again, we shouldn't
be surprised if there are problems.  

And as Shannon says, the staff who run the servers are seldom consulted
about the decisions (or if they were at the beginning it's lost in the
paperwork), especially if it's going to be a multi-campus one. 

Jim 

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