Re: [dundee] Microsoft tactics - Universities

[Daniel Lamb]

My question would be will microsoft backup the data and not have any loss by using them? The reason i am asking is when it was hotmail there were alot off losses of data accounts randomly disappeared. Also are microsoft still running their mail servers on unix? 

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From: azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com>
Sent: 15 Sep 2007 9:12am -07:00
To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [dundee] Microsoft tactics - Universities

there is also the google apps route for email managment

free to universitys. M$

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html

On 9/15/07, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:28:39 +0100, Jason Cormie wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> We also know free (as in speech) is important.
>
> Then again it's just students email we're talking about, not nuclear
> missile launch codes.
>
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