out sourcing E-mail

[Anthony Morales]

Would it be worth out sourcing our e-mail GPW 5.5?
there are 87 Mail accts - but we are also a financial company.
I told the IT Mgr, that was not a good idea

thanks and regards,

am

[Uwe Buckesfeld]

Anthony,

this very much depends on how your system is set up and who is the admin.
A perfect single PO system with 87 users can run on any Netware server doing other things,
and it doesn't need much hardware. Assuming the 87 users don't change frequently, all this will
cause about an hour of admin time per week, maximum.
Nobody can do cheaper, IMHO.

Uwe

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[Tim Heywood (NSC Sysop)]

I agree with Uwe, the one thing I would add is that you can have a complete
archive of every message sent internally and out, thereby you are able to do a
full trace for accountability purposes. This kind of action would be much
harder in an out sourced world.

I would probably be worth looking at a newer version of GW as well, it has
additional features that would help to reduce the management overhead still
further.

Tim

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 05:16:33 GMT, Uwe Buckesfeld <u.buck...@myrealbox.com>
wrote:

>Anthony,
>
>this very much depends on how your system is set up and who is the admin.
>A perfect single PO system with 87 users can run on any Netware server doing other things,
>and it doesn't need much hardware. Assuming the 87 users don't change frequently, all this will
>cause about an hour of admin time per week, maximum.
>Nobody can do cheaper, IMHO.
>
>Uwe

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