From: Rob Stow Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: The TRUTH about Digital Services (was Re: Latest DEC selloff rumor) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:35:04 -0800 Organization: SaskTel - Sympatico Lines: 26 Message-ID: <349183D8.2565@sk.sympatico.canada> References: <65ck07$3k0$1@wave.roguewave.com> <347D86B3.257B@world.std.com> <34892008.E0B3A932@uvo.dec.com> <3489DDBD.5729@videotron.ca> <348D29D4.B40D3572@uvo.dec.com> <34914EBC.600D@ACM.ORG> Reply-To: corrse@sk.sympatico.canada NNTP-Posting-Host: draken16.sk.sympatico.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!news.tufts.edu!usenet.logical.net!newsfeed.wizvax.net!ulowell.uml.edu!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!News.Toronto.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!news3.bellglobal.com!news1.bellglobal.com!dragon.sk.sympatico.ca!news Xref: news.mitre.org comp.sys.dec:60125 comp.os.vms:185102 Mark E. Levy wrote: > > John, > > I agree with most of what you said, but to be fair, I've heard these > "Exchange ate my mail" stories first hand from DEC people on this side > of the pond. It's a serious problem with Exchange everywhere, not just > at DEC. I have several clients that use Exchange reporting this > problem. > This is one of the reasons I dread the coming change within my organization from Digital's "TeamLinks" to MicroSoft Exchange - as an e-mail mechanism Exchange has a much steeper learning curve than just about anything I've seen and is very unreliable to boot. I am amazed that DEC of all organizations would choose a piece of crap like Exchange over a product of their own (TeamLinks) that is far more reliable. Rob -- corrse@sk.sympatico.canada Rob Stow (Change "canada" to "ca" when replying.)