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--- Colin Anderson <ColinA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >It's Microsoft. Enough said. Replace it with some > proper software. > > OT: Last year, I was charged by the CEO of our org > to replace Exchange / > Outlook because he was sick of writing big cheques > to Microsoft. After > reviewing the options, I decided that Open-Xchange > was the ticket. It did > what we wanted, plugged into PDA's, was web-based > (with a beautiful, > intuitive and customizable interface), highly > manageable, secure, > everything. We did a trial rollout to a single > company in our org, trained > them, they signed off, yes it is working and we > understand. 2 months later I > get hauled into a bigwig meeting and they demand > Open-Xchange be replaced > with Outlook. The reason? Everyone *wanted* Outlook > because it was what they > used at home. Since when the workers dictate the company's decisions? Next time just tell them "Ok, if at least 30% of you use a legal copy of windows at home, we roll-back". > > The moral: When you hit your hand with a rock for so > long, and someone > replaces the rock with a feather, you resent the > feather because you are > used to the pain. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx < /dev/null *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@xxxxxxxxx*