Alan Cox wrote:
Our IT staff are being told by someone new to the organization that it
is exchange and only exchange. No forwarding or anything else. They
even toasted our mail lists and supports mail lists for a few months.
No Imap, No pop. This even upsets our local IT staff.
Use the situation to demand a laptop just for the purpose of running
outlook. Park it next to your real desktop and run synergy so you can
share a keyboard and cut/paste between systems most of the time. It will
solve your problem and the person in charge obviously doesn't care about
costs.
Sounds like when I was at 3COM and we did basically the same. We had a
Linux Network for real work with CVS, and a corporate compliant pile of
crap which was theoretically a ton more powerful so that random US
offices could inflict lotus notes on us and tell us in the UK that Maria
in the west california office had brought donuts.
At that point I left, and shortly afterwards economics caught up with the
rest of the inefficiencies and market forces did the rest.
If you are just doing email it doesn't make much sense to be locked in
to a proprietary server. Unfortunately there hasn't been any real
alternative to exchange or notes if you need calendar/scheduling tied to
email. Our company has widely distributed offices and depends heavily
on conference calls with everyone calling a bridge number at the same
time. I'd never remember the times if outlook or my phone (treo
w/outlook sync) didn't beep at me - and they change all the time as
people have to reschedule. Even if an alternative to exchange existed,
it would be pretty hard to change all the infrastructure at this point.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
