RE: GroupWise vs Exchange

From: Rob Zabroky <rzabroky(at)cybertrader.com>
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 17:50:19 EST

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-----Original Message-----
From: Salvatore Poliandro [mailto:jello@vanished.net] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 4:03 PM
To: 'Judd Cook'; Focus-virus@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: GroupWise vs Exchange

I will see if I can dig up our report. My boss had asked me this question
and I found facts on both Novell and M$'s site. In 6 years, we have yet to
see a virus hit our GroupWise system [knock on wood]. The down of GroupWise
is slim to none compared to that of Exchange. The fact that GroupWise connects only to GroupWise servers [and not public pop3 accounts] has had
quite the bonus by users not contaminating their GroupWise accounts. There
are numbers on both Novell's and M$'s sites that would be useful to you but
I will see what I can Dig Up.

Sal

• Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Faust" <JFaust@gramtel.net> To: "'Judd Cook'" <JuddC@questar.com>; <Focus-virus@securityfocus.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: RE: GroupWise vs Exchange

> I cant point you to a website or any studies, but I have been
administrating
> 3 different exchange servers for 3 different divisions of our company
for
> about a year or so now. I would have to say the last big virus that
hit
any
> one of our boxes was the nimda virus. But the one we get the most is
the
> Klez virus.
workstations
> you don't need to worry about them getting virus' thru email (only
problem
> with that is, if they have other pop3 accounts setup in outlook).
could
> find) hard numbers relating to this. For instance, a case study of a
went
> up by X amount. Or GroupWise shops average X amount of outbreaks a
year
> while Exchange users average X, and at this cost. If anyone can help
me
> with this I would appreciate it.

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