Re: Google Apps Premier and OpenOffice

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It has what you have there plus virtualization, a 2nd server as
> backup, a SAN for storage, all the software licensing, and all the labor.

Virtualization and a SAN? That's much more than is needed for a 25 person exchange implementation. If you're doing other stuff than fine, but then you can't compare it to Google Apps. Unless you SAN is just a big box of disks, you better have someone to manage it too. For one server a SAN makes ZERO sense, for two servers, it makes minimal sense, I'd get an external storage array and move it between the machines if needed. SANs shine w/multiple front-end servers, and they're typically not a set-and-forget setup (really simple iSCSI not withstanding).

-Walden