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What is Better Groupwise or MSExchange 2006
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marvhuffaker
MIS
Well there isn't an exchange 2006, first of all.
Lets see what I can come up with....
- Never had a virus take down a groupwise server
- Never had a virus propogate through my groupwise client that infected 60,000 users and 1000 Windows servers like I have seen Exchange do, shutting down worldwide datacenters for 3 days while cleanup takes place.
- GroupWise is solid. Get GroupWise up and running and you don't have to think much more about it. I Can't say that for exchange, it requires constant babysitting.
- Why would you want to run a Legacy product like Exchange? It's been out since 2003. GroupWise 7 was released just last year with a MAJOR service pack released just a couple months ago (yes in 2006) that added some huge features.
- Exchange 2007 is in the 'major media hype' phase right now. I wonder if you install Exchange 2003 now, what will the pain be to upgrade it? If history repeats itself, every new version is a complete revamp of your network.
- On the contrary, GroupWise can be upgraded in place in about 1 day (being very conservative). No network overhauls and usually doesn't require new hardware.
- GroupWise can run on Linux, Windows, or NetWare.. What's your favorite platform? Can you get Exchange to run on Linux? I don't think so.
I'm sure if you ask in the Exchange forum (Which you've probably already done), you'll probably hear a lot about "well Exchange is the market leader" and "Exchange 2007 is almost out" and "Can't wait for Exchange 2007" blah blah blah".
Thats all I have right now.
Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
Lets see what I can come up with....
- Never had a virus take down a groupwise server
- Never had a virus propogate through my groupwise client that infected 60,000 users and 1000 Windows servers like I have seen Exchange do, shutting down worldwide datacenters for 3 days while cleanup takes place.
- GroupWise is solid. Get GroupWise up and running and you don't have to think much more about it. I Can't say that for exchange, it requires constant babysitting.
- Why would you want to run a Legacy product like Exchange? It's been out since 2003. GroupWise 7 was released just last year with a MAJOR service pack released just a couple months ago (yes in 2006) that added some huge features.
- Exchange 2007 is in the 'major media hype' phase right now. I wonder if you install Exchange 2003 now, what will the pain be to upgrade it? If history repeats itself, every new version is a complete revamp of your network.
- On the contrary, GroupWise can be upgraded in place in about 1 day (being very conservative). No network overhauls and usually doesn't require new hardware.
- GroupWise can run on Linux, Windows, or NetWare.. What's your favorite platform? Can you get Exchange to run on Linux? I don't think so.
I'm sure if you ask in the Exchange forum (Which you've probably already done), you'll probably hear a lot about "well Exchange is the market leader" and "Exchange 2007 is almost out" and "Can't wait for Exchange 2007" blah blah blah".
Thats all I have right now.
Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
You might want to consider Exchange if you plan to spend a lot of money and try to build an "empire" by hiring a mail administrator, a AD expert, and maybe a scripting guru.
Or if you want highly stable and low-maintenance messaging, you could use GW.
It really depends on your goal.
Or if you want highly stable and low-maintenance messaging, you could use GW.
It really depends on your goal.
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Marvin,
Thanks for the information, I'll keep doing some research but your points are well taken and I have to agree with all of them. Is Groupwise a major installation on any platform? When updates are introduced, are they ususally patches or installation CD's that don't require reboots?
TZeus
Thanks for the information, I'll keep doing some research but your points are well taken and I have to agree with all of them. Is Groupwise a major installation on any platform? When updates are introduced, are they ususally patches or installation CD's that don't require reboots?
TZeus
To go along with what terry712 said, if you set the clients up using caching mode, the user would never even know the agents were restarted (they probably wouldn't anyway). You could propably reboot the server and most users wouldn't know in caching mode.
Ed
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marvhuffaker
MIS
I have to be a little more conservative. I have seen isolated cases where the server abends when unloading GW6.x agents and then loading GW7.x agents. Not very often, but once in a while. So it's good to do it during maintenance window, although it usually goes without any problems. After the abend, a quick reboot and everything is good.
Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
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