Did you know….
I have been receiving a bunch of those marketing calls lately… the kind that they can’t pronounce your name, your church name or don’t know “the person in the organization that makes technical decisions”. I normally tell the caller we aren’t interested nor do we give out information about our network configuration or our recent purchasing history… Bottom line if our vendors want to know what I (or my staff think) they will contact us directly or read our blogs.
But.. for a random reason I entertained a recent callers request… This call was to ask about our recent changes in service with our Comcast services (see my post ‘more bandwidth for le$$‘). The caller was asking what we thought about the value for the money, the service offered, the installers etc… then he asked what value do we place on the Microsoft Exchange, OWA and SharePoint Server services provided at no charge to Comcast Business customers. I responded that the value was 0 since I didn’t know about the offering…
I quickly emailed our friend Lucy at Comcast and asked what this was about. She sent me a
with the details that they offer Exchange Server and SharePoint Server as free offerings to customers… Not a really needed solution for us… but a good ‘did you know’.
Michael Foster
05.23.2008 8:52 am
Comcast is offering an exchange solution with sharepoint to its business customers for free? Why would that not be a needed solution for you? If I had the opportunity to outsource something like email and it allowed for the same things that I’m using internally it would be difficult for me not to move. I’m always very cautious of my internal desire to outsource which is why I’m interested in why this is not a needed solution for you guys.