[ILUG] Re: Evolution and Exchange

[Paul Scollon]

and then there is the marketing implications of scanning student emails 
for regularly used phrases, and what about adveretisment placement for 
M$ products in the webmail interface?


On 10/07/11 13:18, Félim Whiteley wrote:
> 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

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/Paul Scollon,
Computer Services,
Dundalk Institute of Technology /