[ILUG] Re: Evolution and Exchange

[Félim Whiteley]

I'd say there is also an ethical/privacy argument as well. If the company is 
US based, thanks to the wonders of the US Patriot act (which MS admitted to 
the other week http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-
act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225) they would have to hand over files 
etc. in the event the US decided there was some issue. It's a bit conspiracy-
like but I'd rather an Irish based organisation which got funding from tax 
payers wasn't opening up potential users to blanket searches on the whim of 
the US.

Says me with my gmail account ;-) 

> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Paul Scollon <paul.scollon at dkit.ie> wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Don't even get me started on the Novell to Active Directory migration,
> > also being done this summer....
> 
> Time to look for a new job...
> 
> I had a similar discussion about "OpenSource reliability" vs Microsoft
> software in $previous_place but I luckily won the argument. Had I not,
> I would have resigned and moved on. As Andrew mentioned in his
> response, I can understand reasonable arguments if they are well
> thought. If it is just a matter of a friend or colleague telling
> management that Microsoft is so much more reliable and faster, I don't
> listen.
> 
> Steph