Why Palin needs Domino email... or, why I should be doing Exchange consulting
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AK state government (which uses Exchange/Outlook) has found a new way to make money. Most of you reading this (except you Admins) could write a LotusScript agent to do this in a day. And, are there no email compliance solutions all the way up in Alaska???
"...the governor's office said it would take up to six hours of a programmer's time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for "security" checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that's $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960"
...and ...
"...That process of deleting information is likely to be so lengthy that most requestors won't be able to see the records until well after the next president and vice president are chosen, the governor's office said."
...and...
"...the governor's office says it can provide copies only on paper."
AK state government (which uses Exchange/Outlook) has found a new way to make money. Most of you reading this (except you Admins) could write a LotusScript agent to do this in a day. And, are there no email compliance solutions all the way up in Alaska???
"...the governor's office said it would take up to six hours of a programmer's time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for "security" checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that's $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960"
...and ...
"...That process of deleting information is likely to be so lengthy that most requestors won't be able to see the records until well after the next president and vice president are chosen, the governor's office said."
...and...
"...the governor's office says it can provide copies only on paper."
Comments
You are right. I'm sure there is a lot of padding of the overall cost figure, but the MS solution makes it more time consuming and therefore much more expensive. Of course Ms Palin would also need to remove both shoes and socks to keep track of all the counting that would need to be done to figure the costs, but that's off topic.
The rub with outlook/exchange is there is no way to isolate the data online, you have to pull local PST's to provide legal hold preservation that is defensible in court, a real cluster with exchange vs domino, and is actually very time consuming on a production network. It is not unusual for a single Outlook mailbox or PST to require many hours for searches as well. You also have to gather the user's local PST data and search that. Outside parties in AK would charge 2 moose arms and 2 caribou legs to do that kind of work (seriously it is very expensive...)
With domino the contained database structure allows creation of static, server-based copies that seem to meet the preservation burden quite well. Much faster, no local PST data laying around for other custodians to worry about etc, so even without email archiving, Domino is way, way, way easier and better than exchange,
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