[ILUG] Re: Evolution and Exchange

[Frank Duignan]

Well I know DIT is moving their student email to google in the coming
year.  I haven't heard of anyone in google coming along to promote
google apps - judging by current trends we will probably move to some
cloud based app service and, given that MS office is the incumbent
office suite we will also probably end up moving to office 365 :(

2011/7/8 Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com>:
> On 08/07/11 14:56, Paul Scollon wrote:
>> DkIT have used the Thunderbird/Lightning combo successfully for the past
>> 4 years, with mail being handled by exim ans calendars stored on a
>> caldav server (example tutorials for staff ->
>> http://ww2.dkit.ie/staff_and_admin/computer_services/tutorials/calendars )
>>
>> Because we use standard imap, staff and students can happily collect
>> their mail on iPhones and Android devices too. It all just works.
>>
>> Unfortunately, senior management have now decided that open source is
>> unreliable and unsupported (hence my quest to compile a list of
>> companies who support open source in Ireland) and have ordered us to
>> pull out everything and insert exchange servers for staff and put
>> exchnge clients on all machines. Plus, student mail is being farmed out
>> to Microsoft Live at edu.
>
> Microsoft are currently forcefully pushing their stuff to students:
> http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/07/06/microsoft-pays-university-250000-to-move-to-office-365/
> It would be interesting to get "management" to detail their decision process.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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