[K12OSN] Emails for large districts

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:37:12 -0500, 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

Just one other thought, with a system this big and that many users, don't recommend a
home built completely free solution.  Nobody will listen to you, and anything you say
will likely be discredited from that point on.  Look for outside vendors that base their
products on open source and can provide proven solutions with support.

Trust me, I've been down that road with the big boys before :-)

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