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fcis comparison: microsoft exchange server
by Jim Yarrow

FCIS excels above a microsoft exchange solution in the following ways:

cross-platform server can run on windows NT server, or less expensive windows NT workstation and mac OS. a UNIX server is currently under development

modest system requirements (windows): minimum system requirements start with an 80486 processor (pentium recommended), NT server or workstation, 4.0 recommended, 12 MB available ram (32 MB recommended for busy systems), and 12 MB free disk space, plus additional storage for mail and user data.

modest system requirements (mac os): 68040 processor or PowerPC (PowerPC recommended), system 7.1 or later (7.5.x or later recommended), 12 MB ram on 68k machines, 16 MB ram on PowerPC (32 MB recommended for busy systems), and 12 MB free disk space, plus additional storage for mail and user data. MacTCP 2.0.6 or Open Transport 1.1.2 (or higher)

manageability: doesn't require a dedicated system administrator with years of technical training, can be administered from any machine with FirstClass client installed. (Emory University, with thousands of users has 1 administrator and 1 server. Microsoft Exchange becomes very unreliable over 800 users, and requires an administrator per server -- add web access to a ms exchange server and the system can support far fewer users).

intuitive, user-friendly collaboration tools: require no technical training and minimal training to customize for end uers.

directly communicates to POP or SMTP

synchronous, real-time communication

conferencing capabilities seamlessly support collaboration (in contrast, Exchange users have to create their own individual folders to create a public folder, without collaborative tools).

unique email features including: tracking of history (who has read, forwarded or downloaded items from a message, and when), "unsend" option, "undelete" ability to undelete mistakenly deleted options (works until nightly trash collection)

scalability: over 100,000 users have been known to connect to one FCIS server and the system can support over 250,000 users (see above note about Exchange reliability over 800 users).


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