RE: [OT] Office X-serve vs windows standard server 2008

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... in that case, aren't you going be paying for SERVICES rather
than PRODUCTS? - If it's all outsourced, do you actually care what it runs
on, provided you stipulate your requirements to the solution provider, and
they meet them?....

E.G: if you state your requirements to be:

Identity management for your 45 users
Access control & authentication
Private storage allocation for each user (home directories)
Shared storage between all users
MAPI based email supporting Outlook clients
Collaboration between users (calendar sharing, free/busy info etc)
Shared printing facilities
Policy-based management of the workstations
.
.
.
etc...

And the man from DelMonte, he say "yes", - and it fits your SLA
requirements, and budget, then do you (or should you) care (or even know)
what the underlying platforms are?

Paul G.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Ho Yin Ng
Sent: Fri 17/10/2008 14:41
To: UKHA Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Office X-serve vs windows standard server 2008



Currently we would be outsourcing all our IT to a support consultancy.

I have no in-house IT manager etc.

2008/10/17 Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxx>:
> Ho-Yin
>
> Simple question - Do you have anyone within the company who can
> support the XServe and OSX?
>
> Ben
>
> On 17 Oct 2008, at 13:39, Ho Yin Ng wrote:
>
>> I have had several consultants look at my office and they are
>> suggesting two different approaches.
>>
>> One is saying we should use an Apple Xserve rather than a windows
>> machine.
>>
>> They state that the SBS requires to be the controller of
everything
>> and does not play well with others. Whereas the Xserve provides a
>> lower total cost of ownership when compared to MS server and
provides
>> similar services and will integrate seamlessly with the exchange
>> server.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>>
>> We are a 45 strong office looking to expand. Currently we only run
>> Windows PCs, but we many have a couple of Macs later.
>>
>> The Xserve seems cheaper than a similar HP DL360 5450 others are
>> proposing.
>>
>> Be interesting to get your opinion on this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ho-Yin
>>
>>
>
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