Hi Im new here. Ive recently taken a job as Systems Admin at a company who are running IBM Domino/Notes. Now it was pretty much the talk that they wanted to migrate away from Domino to Exchange from day one. However now the guys in the Austin office have come up with the idea that we should be using Googles GMail Enterprise. Right now Im in favor of migrating to Exchange 2007. Other than to save money are there any reasons to move from hosting a more traditional internal mail server using something like Domino/Exchange/Groupwise vs a hosted offsite webmail like Gmail? Can anyone direct me to any non-Microsoft pages or white papers comparing in house Exchange hosting vs offsite hosting (SaaS). Any additional features tying Exchange into Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES 4.1) would be of additional benefit because they love their BBs here. Sorry, Im new at this whole management *thing* and frankly Id much rather be working on servers than doing politics and writing reports. PS, if anyone has any helpful tips on migrating from Domino 6.5 to Exchange 2007 and would like to throw that in that would be great too!

Hi Pjohnston, After searched on the web, the following articles may help you if youd like to use exchange 2007 I summarized some benefits in the exchange 2007, please see this thread Resources: Best Practices for Migrating from Lotus Notes to an Exchange Organization Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 Series Domino to Exchange Messaging Migration Tools Solutions MatrixBlackBerry Enterprise Server Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

I just wanted to thank you. Those were very helpful!

J Glad it help

its now been 2 years this this post, im wondering, which way did you end up going?

I'm also interested what happened with this project. Did you guys end up going to Exchange 2007 or Google?