[dundee] Microsoft tactics - Universities

[Jason Cormie]

Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:44:35 +0100, Jason Cormie wrote:
> 
>> For the last year we have been on the brink of deploying "Windows
>> Live @ EDU", whereby student email will be hosted by Microsoft,
>> giving much bigger mail quotas than we could ever afford along with
> 
> Interesting... as you can put together multi terabyte storage arrays
> pretty cheaply these days.

true, but you also need to employ someone to manage that email system, backup 
that data, buy more expensive hardware for reliability( main cheap disk arrays 
fall apart under heavy load), license the evil proprietary software,  monitor 
it, be on call at weekends to deal with outages, etc.

The true cost is not just the hardware sitting in the datacenter, and as the 
open source world knows free (as in beer) is a big incentive for cash strapped 
organisations.

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Jason Cormie