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Originally Posted by mcevoys  I'd gladly pay a reasonable amount to run NE...for my home server....This would allow me to financially support a product I believe in (and have both recommended and installed in the field for others...resulting in $$), without becoming a support burden myself. |
I agree. I could easily ask my friends and family to pitch in 5 bucks per year for a really nice mail server with full backup and that would work with their Macs or Outlook. But I can't exactly ask them to pay $25/year for use of my personal server. I'm not giving them 24/7 support, after all. If the server goes down for a day or two, it's tough doodoo for them :-). But it IS important to me that I DON'T lose all their (or my) email if the hard drives die.
And that's a good point about personal users recommending and installing it for businesses. We've been using Exchange at my office for the past few years (about 160 users). After I get Zimbra up and running on my personal server, we'll be able to evaluate it in actual use to see if it will do all we need it to do for our business. Unfortunately I won't be able to evaluate how well the backup, Outlook/iSync and mobile phone features work. ALL things that we currently use extensively with Exchange and that we'd need to make sure still worked as well if we made the switch.
--Dan