Opinions on Exchange options

[Steven Stern]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:42:36 -0500, redhat <redhat at fayelectric.com> wrote:

>First - forgive the length of this post...I am going to throw this out
>there for whomever wants to respond.  I have an Exchange 5.5 server
>which is my PDC (primary authentication and email - internal only)
>running on server 2000.  Last year it crashed because it mysteriously
>forgot that it was the PDC and I had to rebuild it from scratch.  Now, I
>am having serious issues with Exchange mail and am getting tired of it. 
>I am required to offer calendaring, shared contacts, yadda, yadda,
>yadda.  I have looked at SuSE's offering and have also looked into a
>product called bynari.  Both seem to offer the right stuff - at a hefty
>price - comparable to M$.  I don't mind the price but I want to be sure
>that in another year I am not back in the same position with problem on
>a different platform.  I don't have anyone on staff that can set up
>Sendmail and I don't have the time to learn it.  I need something that
>is intuitive enough to set up and administer.  If you are familiar with
>either of these products I would appreciate pros and cons.  If you have
>a different product that does not require 3 brains to setup and
>administer I would appreciate that as well.
>thanks,
>DF

Have you considered Groupwise?  You can download a free beta version to test.
http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
--
   Steve