Taking the middle ground with email

Today, it's entirely possible to take a hybrid approach to email messaging that allows you to choose the best from both the open standards community and your legacy proprietary systems technology. But this hybrid open/proprietary approach will only work if it allows users to drop in an email server without making changes to desktops or infrastructure. For a smooth transition and managed migration, the new system must operate seamlessly at the server-to-server level, so that during a period of coexistence, users of the new system can work effectively with users who are still hosted on Exchange. An effective approach uses a product compatible at the network-protocol level with the existing infrastructure. Outlook on the desktop will think it is talking to Exchange when it is really talking to the new Linux email server, and end users don't know they are on a different server. An open standard, Exchange-compatible, drop-in solution supports a Linux-friendly messaging environment that enables full Outlook functionality. What's more, enterprises can scale their email systems and choose the most economical storage components, and the servers can communicate on a peer-to-peer basis with Exchange and the rest of the email ecosystem. This middle-ground approach leverages systems that enable protocol compatibility with the market-dominating system but also allow the organization to evolve an open email ecosystem.

Read more about the hybrid email system:
- read the article at Linux Insider