This letter was written by a system administrator in the
U.S. Army.
As a system admin for the Army, I can tell you what a
nightmare those people at Cal State are about to experience.
We have our server running Windows NT and email handled
through Exchange. Woe to the sys admin and tech support
personnel who have to put up with this "wonderful"
combination!
If they want really robust and stable mail then they
should go with Linux mail server on a Power Mac. Exchange is
like any other Microsoft product: bloated and a resource
hog. It constantly is crashing the mail server because it
cannot handle the flow of mail being pushed through
it.
Wait until Cal State finds out just how many computers
they will need as mail servers once they start with
Exchange. I'm fairly disappointed in Cal State's decision --
I always thought of universities as places of free thought
and opinion, and now the instructors and personnel working
there will be force fed an OS that is not of their choosing.
On the upside, I'm sure there will be a greater market for
MCSE techs looking for work, cause Cal State is gonna need
them.
Advice presented in good faith, but what works for one may not work
for all. Computers are like that. Please report errors to
Dan Knight
.
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