From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:06:49 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:pff6evo2okdb1cgrn4gode7a7schhqdg2q{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Snodgrass's group proposed replacing the company's Microsoft Exchange
>> servers with a Linux-based solution that would have all the same
>> collaboration features and have a cost savings of 70 percent to 80
>> percent. However, for other reasons that Snodgrass wouldn't discuss, the
>> company's executives decided to stick with Exchange but outsource the
>> management of the groupware to save money.
>
>It's a great solution but we didn't go for it.
>Why didn't you go for it?
>I can't tell you.
>
>What kind of crap is this?

It is the crap that some corporations call upper-level management
decisions.  It is the crap that some corporations call
"political" not "technological" solutions.

It could be as simple as there being a single high-level manager whose
responsibility includes the Exchange servers, but not the other Windows
servers; and that individual refuses to consider anything but Microsoft.

Now, before you scoff at this, I will say that I've seen this exact thing
happen in one large corp I worked at, but instead of Linux replacing
Windows, it was Windows replacing IBM mainframe applications.

Welcome to the corporate world.

 /m

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