OT: Re: Alternative to MS Exchange
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Fri Dec 5 01:18:29 UTC 2008
Joshua Martin wrote:
> Um... I don't think Exchange is so inexpensive....
>
> According to the Microsoft website, the cost of Exchange 2007 STANDARD is
> $699, that's all well and good but when you calculate that you also have to
> purchase a CAL for each user that needs to connect to the server (let's say
> you have 25 users at Microsoft's cost of $67 per user or device), then you
> have a total cost of $2374!
>
> Zimbra does not operate under a service license + CAL for each connecting
> user; instead you make one purchase of support based on your number of
> users. This means that for 25 users connecting to the STANDARD edition of
> Zimbra, with one year of support, you'll only pay $875!
>
875 * 5 years (I usually deploy a server for longer) = 4375. You need
to pay annually for the commercial version of Zimbra that includes the
Outlook connector. And you really don't want to the same comparison
for, say, 30 users :)
> Factoring in the cost of Windows Server (do you need CALs for users
> connecting to the server?), the cost of the Exchange CALs, and the cost of
> Microsoft's support year after year, MICROSOFT EXCHANGE IS NOT INEXPENSIVE
> COMPARED TO OTHER GROUPWARE SOLUTIONS...
Microsoft Support? you'd have to be a sucker to buy into that :) But I
agree that cost of server + server Cal's is the devil in the details..
that's why I said earlier that Exchange is not expensive *if* you
already have server and Active Directory for your users.
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