Email system.

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:37 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Having been on the state contract list for about 18 years now, I can assure
> you all is fair in the bid process - NOT !!!!
> 
> I imagine it is a WINBLOWS shop and/or someone they already have designed the
> bid specs. FOSS is being mandated as a cost saving measure but the
> central ITS authority, but in reality WE ALL KNOW the score.
> 
> As a matter of fact on of my State cleints in which we set up
> email server with clamav, spamassassin, horde/imp, postfix and cyrus
> less than 30 months ago. One of their agency head decided they need support for
> blackberry's and EVEN thought I told them about Funambol that could be added,
> the spent about 25K+ for a Exchange replacment that could support 1200 Email 
> accounts.

Too bad it was not Nokia phones. Their server push software is available
for Linux (Novell have a white paper on setting it up). Up to 100 users
is, I think, free. Above that, they want a license.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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