RE: Guess I was not understood - Running Microsoft Exchange On a Linux Box - Can it be done?

["Angel Gabriel" <badmangabriel lycos co uk>]

Thanks Marco! You make a great point! It's not mission critical that I run
MS Exchange... It's something I would LIKE to do, I'd rather not re-educate
some clients. I'll consider some alternatives....

Basically, I'm looking at that killer app that is Outlook friendly! I've
already been emailed some links, and I'll look at them in a few minutes,
thanks everyone!

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Marco Fioretti
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:23 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Guess I was not understood - Running Microsoft Exchange On
a Linux Box - Can it be done?


Just a minor comment:

>
> This would mean running MS Exchange. Which is not a problem. I just don't
> want to set up a W2K server, 'JUST' to run MS Exchange. So this leaves me
> two choices:
>
> A) Attempt to run MS Exchange under wine, or maybe VMware
>
Probably you already realized it, but your solution (A) with VMware is
exactly what you don't want to do (set up W2K _just_ for MS Exchange)
*plus* the cost and setup of one VmWare license: VmWare doesn't
emulate anything at the OS level, you have to install the whole OS if
you need applications made for it, and pay its license

Running Exchange under Wine, unless somebody else already demonstrated
it to be working 110%, would probably put you between complaining
users on one side, and the certainty of zero MS support on the other
(assuming you can call that support, of course): good for
experimenting, not for production. Eventually, users will blame you
for a screwed server installation

Try to look at it in this way: what do your users _actually_ do? Are
those functions/services/whatever that are _really_ only provided by
Exchange to Outlook? If yes, and such services are really critical
for the business, you are probably stuck with Exchange on W2K

If the services can be not used, or substituted with something else,
and the only real outcome is that somebody is confused for 5 minutes
because some icon changed, then go to any other server, on Unix,
Linux, Windows, whatever, that gives what they need at the lower TCO
(whatever that means in _your_ situation). There will be a one week
transient, and then nobody will ever remember or know what it was like
before, nor will they care: users need services, not the
responsibility to chose which SW product provides them

Sysadmins, on the other side, should start from really needed services
and then find which product gives them, not say "I must install this,
just because, and then we all bend over backward to make something
useful with it". This is exactly what Microsoft wants

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti



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