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Well, it's funny you mention that...

About a year ago I setup Exchange 2007 Enterprise for a school district with 1800 mailboxes, no local e-mail storage, the majority use OWA. They have an IT staff that has zero knowledge of Exchange and I handle any and all maintenance for them as a consultant. They've spent just over $1000 in that year, at $179/hour, maintaining their Exchange server. It's bullet proof. They do the Rollups when it says they're available and I handled SP1 for them, which was an hour of that cost. It's pretty much hands off actually, far cheaper to maintain than anything else out there as far as I can tell. And it's 2 servers clustered between 2 facilities.

I won't give you a cost of deployment as it was a school district and their prices are insanely low, something in the range of $7 per enterprise CAL, but you still get the picture. Your argument about maintenance is a very, very weak one. And the cost comparison is crap.

Let's start with storage cost. Considering both systems are storing the same amount of data, why would it cost 4x as much per server for Exchange's storage? That makes no sense whatsoever. Second, assuming you're running Server 2008 Core with the Exchange 2007 role installed it would have zero issues with a 2 TB mail limit and you could easily accomplish it with 2 servers instead of 4. Third is the Windows Server CAL Costs. In this situation you wouldn't buy 2000 CALs per each of the 4 servers, as the chart would have you believe. You would buy 2000 per seat licenses, dropping the CAL costs by 75%.

The whole cost comparison is entirely off base. I could continue but since you probably don't even understand what Exchange is capable of I'll go ahead and leave it at that.

Posted by: LiquidLearner   Posted on: 08/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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