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On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Lounds, Victor wrote: > Interesting... > > I know of a school here in michigan that migrated from POP3/IMAP > several > years ago to a MS Exchange configuration for their Fac/Staff while the > +27,000 students used a hardware device called Mirapoint. This split > config seems to work well for them, I wonder if something similar or > better this would work in our enviornment. I know that Mirapoint uses a per user license for its appliances. I think one problem with something like a Mirapoint is that with 160,000 + users, per user licensing becomes really expensive really quick. If its per user license were more than a few dollars, the cost of the system would balloon and that's not even considering the cost of storage yet. I used to work for a smaller university that considered a Mirapoint and with ~7000 users we were looking at a pretty expensive system after everything was figured out, and that was using our own storage. Unless the price is reasonable, per user licensing on a system our size can be prohibitive. --Ray