Exchange Replacement

[Blake, Chris]

> It
> of course uses an Oracle database on the backend. We have 42000
> employees using a single server (with a hot backup in case something
> happens). I think the list price is $60 bucks a user (list on exchange
> is $126/user or something like that).  

You would probably need 42,000 employees to make it cost effective
considering the backend Oracle database alone is $18,000 per processor 
($15K & support).

And since Oracle doesn't differentiate between production server and hot 
backup servers when it comes to licensing, you can double that cost to
$36,000 just for the database for a 1 cpu system.

I'm sure the email software has a cost as well.

If your going to spend that much, you might as well just buy the real
Microsoft product rather than a look-alike.

Chris Blake
(who has quite a few expensive Oracle databases running)