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Re: Openwave Opinions

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Sat Nov 08 20:10:06 2003 
Rubens Kuhl Jr. writes on 11/8/2003 7:51 PM:


Sometimes outsourcing corporate / isp mail handling to a provider like
us, criticalpath, postini etc might be a good way to go.

Outsourcing is usually a good way to get a solution with expertise instead
of a next->next->finish software installation and license to use it... but
for ISP use, integration with internal OSS (billing, tech-support etc.)
seems to be a challenge. Outsourcing costs also keeps most ISPs from using
such a solution, unless time-to-market is the one and only criteria.
Well - there are ways (such as that the outsourcer only handles the MX for the domain[s], and then routes all inbound mail to the ISP, who handles file storage / pop3 / webmail). Or an onsite install of the mta / antispam solution etc, updated by the outsourcer (push updates using rsync, for example) but sitting on racks in the ISP's data center.

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