Today their split-mode deployment consists of 3,100 Exchange users and 13,700 Zimbra users (each with grad students, faculty and employees) running equivalent feature sets (email, calendaring, sharing, mobile, etc). It turns out at EDUCAUSE when we caught up with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) they shared some great field data with us on this very topic from their own TCO case study.Ībove: Penn admin resource distribution and resulting monthly per-user costs charged back to departmentsĪccording to Adam Preset, an IT Technical Director in Information Systems & Computing (Penn’s central IT organization), Penn’s IT Services added Zimbra 18 months ago to provide departments across the campus a Web 2.0 option in addition to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange 2007 (Zimbra can share Active Directory, resources and free-busy times with Exchange). Instead, in most circles you simply hear something analogous to “my Exchange servers are really cranky.” But how much valuable productivity are you actually losing?
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This cost differential often gets hazy because most organizations do not closely log time spent on specific tasks, including software administration or escalated user support issues. However, while licensing and hardware cost data is readily available, perhaps the most significant recurring cost components in the equation are less well documented - additional time spent administering servers and software and the high cost of support contracts. Public field data typically shows Zimbra Collaboration Suite ahead of MS Exchange Server when licensing and hardware costs are compared for various on-premises deployments.
So it’s no surprise we hear more and more the questions, “How does Zimbra total cost-of-ownership (TCO) compare with Microsoft Exchange?” In fact, it recently hit #3 on our popularity chart as organizations contemplate Exchange upgrades again (we’ll save the top two questions for another day). In today’s climate IT departments are under a lot of pressure to cut costs yet maintain services that don’t compromise on features. By admin on Apin Community, Company News, Education, Partners