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Published on: May 2008
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 8 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
Microsoft Exchange has long dominated the email server market. Until recently it was the only practical choice for IT administrators who didn’t want to bother with the plug-ins or connectors needed to make non-Microsoft servers work with Outlook and other key email and collaboration technologies. That need for compatibility locked IT administrators into an Exchange-based infrastructure.

It also forced them to put up with the significant drawbacks associated with Exchange:

--High cost
--Outdated database technology
--Limited support for virtualization
--Inflexible server management environment
--Difficult migration path
--Limited support forWeb 2.0 collaboration tools

Now a new option, PostPath Server, overcomes all those limitations and delivers much more. For the first time, organizations that are considering implementing or upgrading an Exchange server have an alternative. PostPath Server delivers native compatibility with:

--Outlook, the defac to standard on corporate desktops
--BlackBerry Mobile Devices
--BlackBerry Enterprise Servers
--Active Directory, the centralized service for authenticating and authorizing Windows users
--Other Exchange servers already deployed

In addition to delivering native compatibility, PostPath Server provides the following key benefits:

--A PostPath-based infrastructure costs far less than an Exchange-based email environment
--PostPath handles larger mailboxes faultlessly
--PostPath provides a fully-integrated AJAX/Web 2.0 webmail and calendaring client
--The PostPath environment is easy to manage and extend using standards-based tools that are often free or low cost
--The PostPath environment runs on a lean infrastructure comprised of lower-cost hardware