How SMBs and SOHOs can cut costs on in-house E-Mail Servers
A friend of my recommended to blog about technology, open source and all that kind of things in the SMB(Small & Medium Businesses) and SOHO(Small Office/Home Office) perspectives. How these people can benefit from open source and from technology in general.
So starting from this post, I will be also blogging more on this topic.
My sister happened to work for a tourism company in KL, the staff number is around 20-25. They have internal E-Mail Server. Somebody (nobody is sure who now) setup their server using Windows 2000 Server as OS, and some 3rd party SMTP and POP3 fetch software.
They always have their downtime, not sure if the E-Mails sent went through, a lot of incoming spam(probably they are also have bots to send out spam) and most annoying part is that they can only use their E-Mails while they are in the office. Which limits their working hours and while their abroad leaves them to use either their Yahoo! or Gmail accounts to communicate. Sometimes they need to refer to their old correspondence and that is quite impossible.
Being an Open Source enthusiast, I offered them to migrate their services to a Linux/BSD platform. Which would have solved half of their problems but not all. Read more
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