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Cost. Especially if you have a large amount of users, and you already have the IT staff and servers to run it on (you can try to justify it with less admin cost
by bluedino 5y ago
Cost. Especially if you have a large amount of users, and you already have the IT staff and servers to run it on (you can try to justify it with less admin costs and less server costs but the numbers don't add up for some orgs)
As an example, I worked at a healthcare org and it would have been $70,000 a year for hosted Outlook, but only $110,000 to buy the software outright and run it for ten years (700,000 - 110,000 is a big savings)
- robjan 5y agoYou also have to run a datacentre or server room with the on-prem version
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- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoAnd meat terraform/ansible to run those.
- gruez 5y ago>and you already have the IT staff and servers to run it on (you can try to justify it with less admin costs and less server costs but the numbers don't add up for some orgs)
- bluedino 5y agoIf you limit mailbox sizes you can run 500 users on a pretty modest VM
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- iso1210 5y agoHN wisdom is that it's impossible to run a single raspberry pi with less than $2m/year spend on IT staff alone