[Cialug] Another Chink in the M$ Armor?

[Jim Asbille]

Taking their inspiration from the facility's doctors, the IT staffers at
Moses Taylor Hospital chose a fairly significant change in direction when it
came time to upgrade their messaging system. Instead of moving up from
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to a pricey current version that couldn't support
growing message loads, they did something completely different. IT staffers
at the Scranton, PA facility went with a Linux-based Exchange clone that
they felt could support their 700 users without forcing them to learn an
entirely new system.

Moses Taylor now is running Exchange clone PostPath
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top of the Linux Centos operating system, a choice IT administrators
estimate cost them 50 over buying the latest version of Exchange. That
estimate doesn't even take into account the costs for maintaining and
supporting Exchange, noted Frank Fallo, manager of network systems. With the
switch, the hospital was able to move from three staffers to one managing
email.

Yet another advantage, Fallo told *Network World*, is that PostPath
integrates well with the existing infrastructure, communicating easily with
components like Active Directory, making integration with both MS and
third-party tools relatively easy.

-- 
Jim Asbille, MSM
registered Linux user number 388067

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited
while imagination embraces the entire world." – Albert Einstein
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