[WinMac] Email Choices
Grant Ball(Grant_Ball[at]videon.wave.ca)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:23:58 -0600
Well Dan,
I'm tickling my keyboard and need help in choosing an email server/software
solution. I work at a newspaper as well as going to school to get my MCSE.
Four hours at the paper and five hours at school.
The paper has 200 users split 50/50 between PC's and macs. Novell and PC's
are on the business side and editorial, classified and production use macs.
Currently only about 80 of them have email and I was asked about bringing
the rest on board. We have several AppleShare servers, one of which handles
email for PC's and macs, as well as an FTP site. The server is an 8500/200
with 64 megs of RAM.
The fellow I work with is a CNE and when he heard the request, instantly
went into a rant about how unstable macs and IP6 is for email and that NT
and Exchange would be a better solution. I don't really care about which to
use since using Exchange would be cool for me since I'm still a newbe to the
NT world and this would give me a chance to use some of my new knowledge.
Now, the rub is money (isn't it always.) We already have NT and Exchange and
we build PC hardware (all Intel stuff so it's HCL compliant) in house. The
catch is, we only have 25 CAL's for Exchange and the paper doesn't want to
spend any money if at all possible. My thinking is IP6 and email seem to
work well, how about just adding the users and Bob's your uncle. Am I
sailing into disaster thinking I can do this? Should I also consider adding
more RAM to the server? Should I tell the paper to go the NT route and suck
up whatever costs that that will incur? What are your thoughts?
Thanks in advance
Grant
A Macuser for more years than I care to remember and
an MCP.
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