Help me avoid Exchange

[Travis Roy]

> That all becomes IT's problem. It only becomes Engineering's problem 
> again if IT flubs it somehow.
> As long as IT provides an acceptable SLA for Engineering (one that 
> Engineering is willing to live
> with, at least), then the problems are no longer Engineering's, which 
> can then focus on Engineering tasks.
> 
> If the IMAP server is business critical to Engineering (and who 
> *doesn't* feel email is business critical nowadays :-),
> perhaps in the SLA you can posit a backup IMAP server for Engineering to 
> become active if Exchange goes out.
> As IT would be providing that to comply with the SLA, it likely wouldn't 
> be a Cyrus IMAP server, of course.
> 

I think these points are key. How stable is the current exchange server? 
If it's stable enough, then why not? I think management would rather 
have engineering, well, engineering things, rather then messing around 
with an email server that the IT department should be doing.