I'm going to go with your IT people are doing it wrong :) I liked exchange, then I had to administer it and at first I hated exchange, but now I love it. I have very few problems. I would say as many as I have with any MS product. On my Linux boxes I just IMAP'ed for email and used an ical converter for calendaring (though I am told there are cleaner ways I never revisited after I set it up in 2006) In truth I have been exchange free for about six months now and have missed it greatly. Google Apps works well enough and if I could get desktop syncing of my contacts I would probably be fine since there is no enterprise to collaborate with anymore. But really, Exchange/Outlook are, unfortunately, the best PIM server/client combo I have found. And with the inclusion in MS Server2003/2007 SBE for just a few hundred dollars, it is hard to ignore. That and I have to say that for administering a few dozen blackberry's the BES/Exchange integration was a very nice thing to have. -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:38 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?) On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen wrote: > I agree on exchange really > If you need just email exchange is the wrong thing but if you are > looking at all the other stuff I haven't seen anything close without > some serious work and cobbling As a forced user of Exchange via Outlook I consider the combination proof that MS is a monopoly. The number of UI odd-nesses, broken metaphors, failures to schedule, etc. that I regularly suffer with amaze me. If it was a tool competing in a fair market, it would have been ridiculed and died. (Or our IT people are doing it wrong.) That said, I have not been an administrator of such a server nor have I used other competing solutions, other than Google. But I am saddened to think that Exchange and Outlook, as broken as they are, represent the best enterprise PIM solution available. Sad indeed. Alan --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss