Cyrus versus Sun ONE?

[Gloria Rom]

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> > We may be deciding to replace our current sendmail MTA and Cyrus IMAP
> > server installation with the Sun ONE messaging server, because we
> > already have the licences for Sun ONE as part of another product.
> > Everything I have heard about Sun ONE has been positive.  Is it really
> > that good?  What are we likely to lose if we make this move?
> > 
Rob Siemborski wrote:
> I suspect the tradeoffs you'll have will be more or less
> similar to any open/closed source product tradeoff -- there's better
> support and more attention to the UI, but it will be harder to fix things
> directly by getting your hands dirty.
> 
> You'll also have to deal with the transition.  Then again, if the
> unification of all of their products is to be believed, it may make your
> life easier in the long run.
> 

Rob speaks the truth. Our transition from sendmail and Cyrus IMAP was
eased by having Sun Professional Services help us install it. It's a
big, sprawling thing with incredibly long pathnames and peculiar notions
of where you have to be before you can run a program, and our users are
shocked at how much memory they need in their home computers for the
webmail part. But the server runs fine, and I have no regrets. Contact
me offline for gory details.

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Gloria Rom
UCLA Library Information Systems
gloriar at library.ucla.edu