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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.. ============ "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." ============= 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 [log in to unmask] 517-355-9200 x2569 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ehren Benson Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Outsourcing e-mail issues 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 [log in to unmask] 517-355-9200 x2569 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matt Kolb Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:44 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 -- Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University