08-02-2009, 01:48 AM
As someone who has actually adminstrated Exchange servers, it IS brilliant -- if by "brilliant" you really mean "heinous nightmare". Then again, Lotus Notes is even worse.
Apple is kind of putting the pieces in place to compete with Exchange, with the CalDAV stuff in Leopard Server. However they are incomplete and very poorly implemented at present; really hope Snow Leopard Server moves things forward in that area. Meanwhile I have been very pleased with Kerio Mail Server, which I have migrated some Exchange sites away from with good results, plus it integrates with Mac clients and iPhones extremely well and costs a LOT less than Exchange.
But back on topic. I would wager that Apple has contributed a LOT more to open source projects than Microsoft has, but still gets disproportionate grief from the "freetards."
Apple is kind of putting the pieces in place to compete with Exchange, with the CalDAV stuff in Leopard Server. However they are incomplete and very poorly implemented at present; really hope Snow Leopard Server moves things forward in that area. Meanwhile I have been very pleased with Kerio Mail Server, which I have migrated some Exchange sites away from with good results, plus it integrates with Mac clients and iPhones extremely well and costs a LOT less than Exchange.
But back on topic. I would wager that Apple has contributed a LOT more to open source projects than Microsoft has, but still gets disproportionate grief from the "freetards."