Re: Good Windows email server?

[H]omer wrote on Sun, 14 May 2006 02:34:08 +0100:

> I don't get it.
>
> Why are people so reluctant to implement Linux solutions? It's not like
> Linux has to prove itself in the server space.

Or FreeBSD.

Some people are reluctant to interact with the drool receptacle^W^W 
keyboard and are lost the minute they have to use one instead of a 
mouse.

Many Windows users don't know what a text editor is. They'll try to edit 
configuration files in MS-Word and then not understand why the 
configuration doesn't work.

> MS Exchange is trash, like everything else MS do. What do we have to do
> to these brainwashed Windows users to make them understand that.

Some never will. You can point them to pages and pages of accounts by 
sysadmins of the difficulties that the OL/Exchange creates for them as 
recipients of mail from that software, but that's just propaganda, isn't 
it? You can show them your log files filling up with traces of Code Red 
and Nimda, but that's just selective reading (although, to be honest, I 
see more attempts to crack things like PHPMyAdmin and Mambo right now, 
not to mention ssh brute force attacks). You can show them that 
alternative software can do what M$ garbageware does but even better, 
and at a fraction of the cost, and they'll never want to leave their 
warm, fuzzy-feeling Windows world.

I'm glad I left those problems behind many years ago.