Case study: Hospital dumps Exchange for Linux-based clone

Taking their inspiration from the facility's doctors, the IT staffers at Moses Taylor Hospital chose a fairly significant change in direction when it came time to upgrade their messaging system. Instead of moving up from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to a pricey current version that couldn't support growing message loads, they did something completely different. IT staffers at the Scranton, PA facility went with a Linux-based Exchange clone that they felt could support their 700 users without forcing them to learn an entirely new system.

Moses Taylor now is running Exchange clone PostPath Server on top of the Linux Centos operating system, a choice IT administrators estimate cost them 50 over buying the latest version of Exchange. That estimate doesn't even take into account the costs for maintaining and supporting Exchange, noted Frank Fallo, manager of network systems. With the switch, the hospital was able to move from three staffers to one managing email.

Yet another advantage, Fallo told Network World, is that PostPath integrates well with the existing infrastructure, communicating easily with components like Active Directory, making integration with both MS and third-party tools relatively easy.

To learn more about the installation:
- read this Network World article

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