Alternative to MS Exchange

[Joshua Martin]

This article must be a bit out-of-date because the costs of Zimbra listed in
those tables are less than half that much now... I didn't think the prices
had changed that much, but the 12k for 100 users at 3 years of support is
not accurate according to the Zimbra "Buy Now" wizard - the cost only comes
to 5.4k


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:54 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 12/04/2008 04:31 PM, 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!
> >
> > 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...
> >
>
> This is a bit dated, but might be of interest:
> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-1035_11-92919.html
> [Introducing Zimbra Collaboration Suite
> by Justin James | Jul 02, 2007 12:00:00 AM]
>
> He gives a cost comarison between MS Exchange, Zimbra, and Scalix. No
> idea how accurate it was/is though.
>
>
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