Over on SearchExchange the users rated their most desired features :
Good to see that direct push for mobile devices is popular; this would indicate a strong take up of the complementary Windows Mobile solution
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Peter de Haas
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This is really useful. I wasnt actually aware that there *were* new features – I was under the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that Redmond was still ripping features out!
Good news!
So – Push eMail – and finally MS starts to complete with the market leader and dominant force – Blackberry (or Crackberry as its known in the Alex cartoon at http://www.telegraph.co.uk. Why ? Once you have the users on them, you cant get them off..). It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes to get the security right on that one.
As one high-profile “poaching” from Cambridge to Redmond commented to me in January – “I like a challenge. I just didnt realise that [fixing security in MS products] it was just soo hard”.
And increasing database size from 16gb to 75gb. Whilst this might at first seem like a good idea – two phrases spring to mind. Cc:mail, and MS Access.
The shared “everything in one large pot” idea came from cc:Mail (a product discontinued in 1999) – which of course Exchange broadly mimic’d when it first appeared in beta form in v4.5, and the Jet database of course came from MS access. Jet has never been the byword for secure, robust storage, especially in a multi-user environment, has it ?
Am I the only one to see the potential hazards in allowing more people bigger mailfiles (I believe the internal MS limit is still 50mb, right ?), in a database structure that should have been replaced by Kodiack ? When was that *supposed* to be delivered ? 2002 ? When will the winFs equivalent appear ?
So. Larger databases, more mail files, more potential disaster – in a database technology long accused as being unreliable. Like using a match to find a gas leak, methinks.
Its a shame that MS Exchange users – long since ignored by Redmond – still dont have a reliable database structure to put their rapidly diminishing feature-list product onto.
Its a shame that MS spends soo much of its time and energy berating other products – ones with active/active clustering (and has had for what – 10 years?) – rather than actually delivering product ?
Perhaps this is why something between 30% and 50% of the MS exchange user base is *still* on Exchange 5.5 – long after the underlying platform – NT – went out of free support ?
(Still its better than the 15% adoption rate of Office 2003..)
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—* Bill
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Hi Bill, thanks for stopping by.
With regards to push mail, mobility and security. Your right that MS is late to introduce this. I do not know what the reason for that is.
My personal view on push email : Why ? Email is never intended to be a realtime medium. In case of BlackBerry you don’t even know how long iot takes to get the email from your mailserver to the BES to your mobile device.
Your right that BB a large competitor for MS and others and they have cleverly sold the need for push email which is now perceived a must have.
I say wait until mobile IM and presence start taking off.
With regards to the security part, Do some reading into the Enterprise Feature Pack for Windows Mobile. It’ll address a lot of your security concerns (but probebly not you sceptisism 🙂 )
Your thoughs on Exchange and the Jetdatabase are clear. To be honoust I am not that deep into the technology so cannot comment on that.
PLease do share source with the marketdata / statistics on Exchange installed base if you can.
As always, awaiting your comments,
Peter