Email system.

[Robert Hemus]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:39 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 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.
> >
> > Sheessss ....
> >
> >
> > I just wanted to bid on it and possible BLOW them all away with a
> > zero cost software solution.
> 
> We ran into the same thing almost 15 years ago when we did a
> proposal for all the Community Colleges in Washington.  Our
> proposal was way less than the Micro$oft solution, and some
> enlightened IT people who had been running SCO Unix for years
> without problems really promoted our solution.  Unfortunately the
> politics and the fact that M$ pretty much owns all IT in this
> state meant that we lost.
> 
> When dealing with government, you have to remember that their
> goal isn't to provide good services at minimum cost, but to
> increase their power and the number of direct reports for any
> ``manager''.
> 
> Bill

As I recall from several years ago Bill wouldn't cut the County govt
where he resides any slack on the cost of his OSD.  They went with a
Linux distro, but I forget which one?
Bob