I was just browsing through the CDWG ED-Tech Magazine I got in my
mailbox today (the real kind of mailbox, ;) ), and there is an article
in it on page 42 for those of you that get it also titled "Give E-Mail a
Makeover".
It talks primarily about the same things that were discussed at the IT
Exchange...the openness of open source and Google/hotmail etc (lack of
privacy etc) and suggests Exchange 2007. For those of you that get this
you might want to take a look, here are a couple of blurbs..
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"The first task is to research platforms that will work best for your
institution. We chose Exchange 2007 for several reasons: First,
Microsoft is the market leader in e-mail systems. There is a good
chance that students are already familiar with Microsoft's email
platform. And they'll probably use it when they enter the workforce, so
letting them use it now makes a contribution from an educational
standpoint. Also, because its natively built on a 64-bit platform, the
scalability of Exchange 2007 dramatically beats any open-source
solution. Finally, Exchange's security now rivals - if not exceeds -
that of any competitor."
"The single largest expense for the new messaging platform will be for
storage. If the goal is creating a new messaging platform that users
accept without reservation, this is not the area in which to cut costs.
Students are used to having access to email inboxes with well over a
gigabyte of storage through the likes of Gmail, and they will insist on
substantial storage space."
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Everywhere I look in higher ed postings, literature, etc the hot topic
is EMAIL...this is really big for everyone now. And it seemed for a
while the buzz was to outsource...now it seems to be reversing with
people feeling not-so-comfortable with the lack of privacy the
affordable outsource hosts provide.
As an aside... this article didn't mention a single thing about
calendaring....I wonder if that really is a top concern/issue among
institutions...I don't seem to read much about that topic.
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
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Personally an email solution that does not feature web access is no
solution to me...I probably use web access 50% of the time and
Exchange-via-Outlook/Pop/Imap the other 50%.
Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
Windows Systems Administrator
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Outsourcing e-mail issues
Check out this thread on the higher education e-mail admin list right
now. There is an interesting distinction made between web-access and
non-web (pop3) access to the google solution. Basically it sounds
like we would have to "give" our passwords to google to make the non-
web based solution work (you can navigate through the remainder of
the thread, I'm just linking the OP).
http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0710&L=hied-
emailadmin&T=0&F=&S=&P=758
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Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]>
Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University
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