Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
- From: "Fletcher, Boyd C. CIV US USJFCOM JFL J9935" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:44:02 -0500
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
frankly MS's approach to exchange is far better than the other older way.
the tighter integration let's you do things you can't do with separate
servers. The original unix philosophy for separate functions was quaint but
in an integrate enterprise environment that approach just doesn't work well.
MS Exchange didn't win the email server war because of MS's marketing. it
won on its own merits. I've watched hundreds of orgs switch from Notes,
Groupwise, and IMAP/POP3 type systems to exchange because it was so feature
rich and oddly enough (for MS) very standards compliant.
as for presentation layer vs backend separation. The exchange backend is
decoupled from the frontend. you can use a variety of clients with Exchange
including Apple Mail, Entourage, Evolution, any IMAP/POP client, and Outlook
just to name a few.
boyd
On 12/30/08 2:30 PM, "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden> wrote:
> In short, because there is no separation of services from presentation,
> and no separation of services from one another in the Exchange/Outlook
> environment. In other words you can't replace components of Exchange
> and/or Outlook and expect it all to work. E.g., I can't replace the
> mailbox server with Courier-IMAP and still have Outlook calendar function.
>
> They're trending in that direction, but only halfheartedly. They know
> that designing Exchange and Outlook as I describe would eliminate the
> vendor lock-in that keeps the revenue flowing.
>
> -- Tim
>
> Fletcher, Boyd C. CIV US USJFCOM JFL J9935 wrote:
>> why?
>>
>>
>> On 12/30/08 2:15 PM, "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Joel Esler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, don't forget that Snow Leopard has native Exchange support for
>>>> all three of these.
>>> Except that Exchange is not a good example of the type of presentation
>>> layer integration I'm talking about. :)
>>>
>>> -- Tim
>
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