Ideas for Mail and Calendaring for 50,000 Users

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Jason Joines wrote:
>   We just got a new CIO at the university where I work.  One thing he is
> about to do is get rid of all the different mail systems and have one
> big combined system for all employees and students.  That'll be about
> 50,000 users.
>
>   At the moment the predominant faculty/staff mail system is Lotus
> Domino on windows 2k and the predominant system for students is Sun
> Internet Mail Server on Solaris.  He intends to replace these with ms
> exchange on windows 2k.  There is a small chance he will listen to
> suggestions to consider non-exchange options.
>
>   Any suggestions?

Nothing specific, although i've read that there are open source solutions.
SOmething to keep in mind t is that you'll need at let5 MS Exchange
servers for 50k users, and most likely more.  So not only will it be
costly just from the MS slant, but it will be costly from a hardware
persepctive, and from a maintanence & licensiing persepctive.


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