[Help-gnu-arch] haircut

Jake Osborne <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:48:07 -0500
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Working in Num Sum, however, was a bit slow; same with Google
Spreadsheets.

Importing a presentation is easy, and it even took a basic one I whipped
together in OpenOffice.

Two solutions, Neverfail for Exchange and SteelEye LifeKeeper, bring
true fail-over to an entire Exchange server. Setting up LifeKeeper is
straightforward.

Spreadsheets can handle formulas, but they choked on the electronic form
sheet like everyone else. For example, past versions of Jtest generated
tests at the class level.

Importing from my own library of spreadsheets was no problem, including
formula support.

I tried to enlist him for this piece, but he threw a stapler at my head,
so I stopped asking.

You will need to create service accounts, as with the other solutions,
but the documentation steps you through the process. It means more time
spent on e-mail maintenance than I ever had to do using a desktop
client. It takes snapshots of server performance and performs trend
analysis to identify areas that may become problems in the future.

Working in Num Sum, however, was a bit slow; same with Google
Spreadsheets. Spreadsheets can handle formulas, but they choked on the
electronic form sheet like everyone else. Your preferences may vary. The
time necessary for this process will depend on the amount of e-mail
stored in the inbox. If the primary server experiences a hardware or
software failure, the secondary server assumes its IP address and
hostname and resumes operation.

I observed the Outlook client experience when the primary server failed,
as well as the time required to fail over to the secondary server.

It also seemed slower than Zoho. That meant nonstandard margins,
different style headings, and loads of tables. If Outlook has it, I want
it in my Web client.

It also seemed slower than Zoho.

Spreadsheets can handle formulas, but they choked on the electronic form
sheet like everyone else.

Because the replication is based on transactions, no corruption of the
Exchange database is passed on to the backup. It takes snapshots of
server performance and performs trend analysis to identify areas that
may become problems in the future.

Surprisingly, Zoho handled the tables just fine, but lost out on the
margins and styles a bit.

It also seemed slower than Zoho. Locally installed applications are
simply more reliable and feature-rich. Both of these are highly capable
browser-based e-mail clients, but they are primarily designed to run
with their own e-mail servers. Importing a presentation is easy, and it
even took a basic one I whipped together in OpenOffice. Collaboration is
fair, including a shared area to which you can invite team members, as
well as discussion boards you can setup.

The interval between failure of the primary server and starting the
secondary server is short, about two minutes in my testing. A
low-bandwidth module is available that enables compression and
encryption over a WAN link, as well as asynchronous replication. That
was no trouble because the office had guest Internet access and a steady
Wi-Fi connection. If the primary server experiences a hardware or
software failure, the secondary server assumes its IP address and
hostname and resumes operation. It takes snapshots of server performance
and performs trend analysis to identify areas that may become problems
in the future. After all, whenever Google waves its hands in this
direction, the pundits swoon. Zoho displayed a few dozen cells of
one-letter gobbledygook and also claimed success.

Then it also had the wiki, blogging, and other collaboration tools that
make the Web the bane of SharePoint.
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