Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
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| A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's eight email
| server clusters last Wednesday. Microsft engineers have struggled to identify
| the cause, forcing several reboots.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/virgin_blueyonder_email_outage_microsoft/
Several reboots. Why? Did the first one not 'take'?
Related:
[Australia:] WA infrastructure dept close to e-mail disaster
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| Western Australia's Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI)
| has revealed its Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail system is
| suffering frequent outages that are creating a risk of
| embarrassing public data loss.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/WA_infrastructure_dept_close_to_e_mail_disaster/0,130061791,339274592,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/395b26
Why Exchange could be in trouble
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| Because Exchange is a whole other world, and, even with the large
| Exchange community, I find it equally opaque at times.
|
| So, for now at least, we went to the tried and true
| Postfix+Courier-IMAP solution that is ever so common in
| UNIX shops, companies that are open to using Linux, and ISPs.
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http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/06/06/why-exchange-could-be-in-trouble/
Specsavers opens eyes to open source
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| The group aims to have made the same transition across all its 960
| stores with Redhat, a version of the Linux open source operating
| system, being used to run its retail computer terminals. Four
| thousand of these have been transitioned so far, with another
| 4,000 still to be done in other countries.
|
| Its point of sale machines will also be moved to Linux, as will
| the servers running its stores and regional headquarters. The
| firm's large-scale data centre in Guernsey will be running Sun
| Solaris. It has also invested in an open source accounting
| package to run its financials outside the UK, which it is under
| an agreement not to name. The UK system won't change, said Khan,
| because he believed that "if it ain't broke, you don't fix it".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/14/specsavers_open_source/
Read the Exchange 2007 small print
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| Hmmm. Simplification? Sounds more like a way for Microsoft to wring
| more dollars from customers, to me.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=175
Exchange 2007 facing integration issues with other Microsoft software
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| In a nutshell, Exchange 2007 can't run on Microsoft's most
| current virtualization software, Exchange's management tools
| won't run on the just released Vista desktop operating system
| and the 64-bit messaging server is not compatible with Microsoft's
| forthcoming 64-bit server operating system called Longhorn.
|
| [...]
|
| In any case, users are already reacting, especially in regards to |
| virtualization, which has become a hot bed of networking activity, as well
| as, a major area of competition for Microsoft with VMWare and open source
| Xen on Linux platforms
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/011107-exchange-vista-integration.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Users, analysts: No rush to adopt Exchange 2007
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| Windows Vista isn't the only recently released Microsoft software
| that will give users headaches when they upgrade their systems.
| Corporate users, partners, and analysts said upgrading to Exchange
| Server 2007 from previous versions also may be a lengthy and
| painful process for companies, which may want to take a
| wait-and-see approach to the new software.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070203/tc_infoworld/85730
Open source email is the future - Synaq
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| "We continue to receive very positive feedback from clients that have
| committed to a migration from traditional email platforms, Exchange and other
| messaging infrastructure. Clearly, there is an association between
| Linux-based technology and benefits such as improved operational efficiency,
| higher levels of infrastructure management and control, as well as lower
| total cost of ownership," he adds.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1608
Multifunction Open-Source Solutions
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| For example, 23% of the nearly 1,000 IT managers and C-level executives who
| responded to the survey said they planned to migrate from Microsoft’s
| Exchange Server (www.microsoft.com) and replace it with a Linux
| (www.linux.org) or open-source messaging platform in the next 12 to 18
| months.
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http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2934%2F32p34%2F32p34.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True
http://tinyurl.com/394y23
Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problems
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| As noted by various Microsoft watchers, the OneCare-Outlook problems are
| not new. A number of customers have been reporting "OneCare ate my e-mail"
| problems since late January.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=316
Vista: What To Do When You Cannot Delete a Message in Windows Mail
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| A number of users are experiencing problems with Windows Mail and
| deleting messages from the Inbox and Outbox. The message will first
| become unviewable in the reading pane and will then generate an
| error when you try to delete it.
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http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2270/vista_what_to_do_when_you_cannot_delete_a_message_in_windows_mail
Microsoft looking into Hotmail, Messenger problems
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| Microsoft engineers were looking into problems with Windows Live
| Hotmail and Live Messenger on Thursday after users reported
| problems getting onto the services.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6175597.html
Small Player Scores Big Open-Source Win
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| In the scrappy open-source software world--where software is developed
| in the open, rather than within the confines of corporate
| patents--successes are hard-won and often come in small chunks.
| Typically it's a few thousand government employees in Munich,
| Brasilia, or Amsterdam who begin using the Linux operating system
| or the Open Office suite of business programs, shunning comparable
| offerings from the likes of Microsoft.
|
| But a deal announced Feb. 26 was on an entirely different scale.
| 1&1 Internet, the world's largest Web hosting company, said it
| will roll out 1 million e-mail accounts this year running on
| Open-Xchange's open-source software.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_455515.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_more+of+today's+top+stories
http://tinyurl.com/2jbtpz
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