Groupwise to Exchange?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:33 am
I understand the church has just moved from Groupwise to Exchange, I am curious as to the drivers behind this. I thought we were Novell house?
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This is correct. The change-over occurred last Friday. I don't know the reasons why.portseven wrote:I understand the church has just moved from Groupwise to Exchange, I am curious as to the drivers behind this. I thought we were Novell house?
Fairenough, I was actually one of the first support calls to the helpdesk on the new Exchange system, I was helping a new Mission President get connected to his LDS e-mail. I think we caught them off guard!tomw wrote:This is correct. The change-over occurred last Friday. I don't know the reasons why.
Tom
It also may be a better product or better meet the Church's needs...? Perhaps the Church gets a better discount or something with Joel's connections?portseven wrote:Just discovered the CIO is ex Microsoft, that may explain the migration...
ZD Net Australia reported that the pricing of GroupWise 8 was about $143 per seat. (http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/s ... 348,00.htm) Exchange 2007 has Enterprise seat licenses for $35 per seat. That being the case, Microsoft may just have under bid Novell for the business.mkmurray wrote:It also may be a better product or better meet the Church's needs...? Perhaps the Church gets a better discount or something with Joel's connections?
I think that the Church gets a pretty good discount anyway, just from the sheer size of the organization.mkmurray wrote:Perhaps the Church gets a better discount or something with Joel's connections?