From: John Cuccia 

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:52:47 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>I don't understand something, with a function like email, where it's such a
>critical communication channel, why do people/companies go for such a
>complex setup as notes, groupwise, or exchange instead of a good reliable
>pop/smtp/imap strategy? Does anyone really use all the extra functionality
>enough to make it worth the added costs?

Remember when groupware was all the rage?  We bought into it (and never
really used the features available), but with no centralized control, and
as a result of various mergers and acquisitions, we wound up with a
balkanized system.  Heck, when we standardized on Exchange, we still had
dino..., er, people using the mainframe email system, which was somehow
gated to the Groupwise and Notes worlds.

While a few people use Exchange to share calendars and assign tasks, 98%
would have been more easily served by a POP mail server.

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