[K12OSN] Emails for large districts

[Johan Blignaut]

Hi

Have you looked at Google Apps -

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100546
40,000 ASU Students Leap to Google Apps; University Pays Zero

http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200610/20061010_asugmail.htm
ASU, Google offer Google Apps for Education

Students to use Google applications for e-mail, calendar and instant 
messaging

Johan Blignaut



Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> Our district has about 16,000 employees of varying types and is
> currently using a web-based Exchange server to do email. The system is
> slow, clunky, and the database is getting full, so we've been told to
> clean out our mailboxes because they're going to delete all mail older
> than 30 days.
> 
> My question is this--does anyone have experience with a system that
> will scale reasonably to that many users. If so, we have about 90,000
> students. Know of a system that will scale that big? The head IT guy
> tells me that he was quoted a commercial cost of between $250k and
> $500k for a system that would handle us, and, while that doesn't
> surprise me, I think something effective could be done much more
> economically.
> 
> I'm just wondering if there's anything I can point to and say, see!
> 
> Todd
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