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With collaberative suites like Zimbra....
why pay MS a dime. Even the smallest IT departments from 1 person on up can install Zimbra on a Linux box, spend $1000 or less on the hardware(for small business, a little more fore medium size business), set it up and walk away and forget it. It will provide all the collaboration any size company needs for the price of the hardware. Then keep all the money you would pay Microsoft in your bank account.

With the OSS offerings today, any company is foolish to spend proprietary $ amounts and get ABSOLUTELY NO MORE productivity or efficiency.

If you want to BURN MONEY that you do not have to, proprietary is definitely the direction you want to go.

There is definitely still a need in very specific areas for proprietary solutions. There always will be. But these sort of ubiquitous services is NOT one of them.
Posted by: bjbrock   Posted on: 07/08/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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With collaberative suites like Zimbra....  bjbrock | 07/08/08
eWeek calls this an ELE  SpikeyMike | 07/08/08
Ummm..eWeek was referring to the partners going extinct, not MSFT  marksashton | 07/08/08
gmail, google docs  twiddly | 07/08/08
dream on ...  socialism=nowhere | 07/08/08
Gmail/Google Docs - $50/user/year  marksashton | 07/08/08
LOLz You Believe M$ is Not a Snoop? grin  i2fun@... | 07/08/08
Re: M$ is Snooper 2.0  n0neXn0ne | 07/08/08
You trolls are hilarious and totally clueless  Martin_Australia | 07/09/08
Clueless?  *nixFan | 07/09/08
Google based on "open source ideals?" Puleeze  marksashton | 07/08/08
In addition ...  LBiege | 07/09/08
Perhaps you should read this...  rkuhn040172@... | 07/09/08
Google docs blow  LBiege | 07/09/08
Typical of large companies  ThePrairiePrankster | 07/08/08
Not an accurate representation  marksashton | 07/08/08
Apt description for current rivals  JohnObeto | 07/08/08
RE: Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month  doug@... | 07/08/08
They will try to clobber UK again  misceng | 07/09/08
Are you kidding, lets look at the cost  lostinparadise45 | 07/09/08
No I'm not kidding  misceng | 07/15/08
RE: Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month  bb_apptix | 07/09/08
RE: Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month  SteveGJ | 07/09/08
sounds reasonable to me n/t  tech_walker | 07/10/08
RE: Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month  pankajunk | 07/10/08

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