Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

[Bryan O'Neal]

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-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com> 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
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