On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:24, rengland@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't believe the responder was equating "Exchange" with an operating > system. They were only pointing out that Linux/Gnu was an entire > operating system with all its complexity and size and it was "free". Why > couldn't an Exchange replacement be free? Probably right... But read through the RFC's for the standards-based ways of doing the separate tasks that exchange/outlook integrate and you'll get the impression that having separate committees each trying to work around the others' problems creates a problem much harder to solve than creating an integrated solution from scratch. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx