Pros and Cons of Groupwise 6 vs Exchange 2003
My company is seriously considering migrating from Groupwise to Exchange and I need the pros and cons of both systems, including nformation and/or references on the technical operation, fte/resource requirements and end-user experience for each.
The current system has 6000+ users. There are 6 servers Post Office Servers, 2 Web Access servers and 1 Domain/Gateway server. Appoximately half of all users use Web Access exclusively. 5,000+ email messages are sent to the Internet daily approximately 10,000 messages are received from the Internet each day. Our entire message store is almost 200 Gigabytes in size. We have over 300 GB of archived mail. There are no restrictions on internal message/attachments or mailbox sizes. External attachments are limited to 20MB.
I'll split the points for good answers and will add more as needed.
The current system has 6000+ users. There are 6 servers Post Office Servers, 2 Web Access servers and 1 Domain/Gateway server. Appoximately half of all users use Web Access exclusively. 5,000+ email messages are sent to the Internet daily approximately 10,000 messages are received from the Internet each day. Our entire message store is almost 200 Gigabytes in size. We have over 300 GB of archived mail. There are no restrictions on internal message/attachments or mailbox sizes. External attachments are limited to 20MB.
I'll split the points for good answers and will add more as needed.
brwwiggins
Do you use novell f&p servers or just have NDS for Groupwise? Do you have any Active Directory Domains in your org?
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And by the way, when I said you hadn't specified the version of GroupWise, I meant "GroupWise 6" doesn't distinguish between v6.0 and v6.5.
While Redmond does everything it can to avoid comparing the latest versions of its products with the latest versions from the competition, be sure any GroupWise-to-Exchange comparison covers the latest versions. Redmond has a long history of publishing comparisons of their latest version of whatever with a version 2 or even 3 years old of the competitor's product. Don't let them sucker you.
While Redmond does everything it can to avoid comparing the latest versions of its products with the latest versions from the competition, be sure any GroupWise-to-Exchange comparison covers the latest versions. Redmond has a long history of publishing comparisons of their latest version of whatever with a version 2 or even 3 years old of the competitor's product. Don't let them sucker you.