Re: [Fed-Talk] VA Seeking Microsoft Alternative
Re: [Fed-Talk] VA Seeking Microsoft Alternative
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] VA Seeking Microsoft Alternative
- From: "Jeremy W. Patrick" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:43:07 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] VA Seeking Microsoft Alternative
Ah ok, I wasn’t aware it was halted. I was trying to figure some settings out a month or so ago and came across some things that were only present with 365/cloud.
Maybe those settings were simply a leftover from when the 365 was tried. Was more of an interesting note than anything since end user operations are unaware.
From: Joel Peterson [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:32 PM
To: Jeremy W. Patrick; 'email@hidden'
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] VA Seeking Microsoft Alternative
The main issue with this RFP is that it doesn't once require the migration from our current Microsoft ecosystem to something else. So we as an agency are expected to start over with something else? Riiiiight. I believe is never going to
happen completely, but the ways it could happen in part could really hurt. I think the VA has the oldest and largest Active Directory and Exchange environment in the world.
Jeremy, the Office 365 deployment was halted because the OIG wants all cloud contracts to have archives for their investigative purposes. Until Office 365 for Government offers something like that, we're still mostly on Exchange 2003, with
some Exchange 2007 here and there.
Considering the VHA side (maybe all 3 branches?) has contracted with Exchange online services this past spring for email, and they JUST rolled out Windows 7,
I really can’t see a MS alternative coming for the next 10 years.
Reads like someone got busted for sole-sourcing a whole ton of tech work and now needs to retroactively prove that there were no other products capable of doing the work. :P
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On 12/20/2013 10:26 AM, William Cerniuk wrote:
Interesting…
VA has an extensive investment in Microsoft technology and extensive experience with that technology. VA's desire is to assess the current marketplace for an alternative to
the comprehensive, seamless integrated environment currently provided by the Microsoft products to supplement the current environment. Manufacturers that provide a seamless integrated solution equal to or greater than the environment provided by Microsoft,
of the same size and scope that is currently operating within VA, are requested to provide a description of that product set and provide examples of that environment currently operating in implementation of the same size and scope.
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