Rick Stevens wrote:
> Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago),
things
> like Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email
> systems did not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again?
> If we needed complete control of things or our email requirements...
Patrick O'Callaghan:
I successfully lobbied my university board to switch to what is now
called G Suite, which is free for educational users. The main
motivation was economic: we simply couldn't afford to keep expanding
our server hardware infrastructure to carry the exploding load, but
more importantly the corporate salary structure didn't allow us to
pay competitive rates to admins.
A large part of the decision are non-technical considerations. There's
the obvious hardware and staffing costs. But you may also have legal
considerations, such as:
Are you required to keep your data in-house? Or if you don't have to,
does an external host keep it in a country that's acceptable to you.
Are you required to keep your data perpetually? And I'm sure there's a
plethora of other non-tech considerations.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
the messages posted to the mailing list.
Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry!