Kerio Mail Server - freedom of choice
The answer to that question is quite clear, wherever multiple computers work and multiple co-workers work together. While the answer is obvious, we can still find that similar services are in most cases only available at larger companies. We can provide several answers as to why. The first is that the SME sector receives little information about these software, and even if it does, it does not feel the need for implementation. He doesn’t feel it because decision makers don’t see the benefits of such systems, they have no practical experience with these systems.
Through my own example, I also dare to describe that it is not clear for companies operating a larger network what it means to work together, what benefits, savings, and how much efficiency increase their introduction entails. During my work last year, we developed a network of over 50 machines in the countryside. The workers handled the mouse at a basic level and the DOS-based program they had been working with until then. Unfortunately, even the staff member appointed as the administrator did not understand exactly why they needed to run such software. Until then, he installed the antivirus separately on each machine, and when an important email arrived, someone, if he hadn’t forgotten it, forwarded it to colleagues he thought might need it. Needless to say, the information was often lost in the mazes of the network.
The example shows that there are a lot of companies in Hungary that have been working with computers for many years, but are at least a decade behind in terms of services.
Of course, the situation is not rosy in terms of hardware either. In larger companies we can find machine parks that are 3-4 years old, in smaller companies they are even older than 6-8 years.
However, together with the example above, we can say that the problem still affects the small and medium-sized enterprise sector the most. It is this group of entrepreneurs who, even if they want to, do not dare to get involved in developments. The reason is simple and can be measured in money. Without going into the subject more closely, they believe that capital is needed to implement such complicated software. Servers, server software, user licenses, client machines, system administrators, and even who knows what to buy.
If there has been no money for such an investment in recent years, then perhaps they may rightly think that there is no less in our crisis-stricken world. Incidentally, this fact can also be well traced in market trends, as statistics show that one of the areas most affected by the crisis is the IT sector, ie companies were among the first to cut back on their IT spending.
So the situation can’t be called rosy at all, and we have to say that in some cases, the executives who anticipate the aforementioned hardware, software, and operating costs are also right. However, many are unaware that there is a solution where most of the costs described above can be saved without having to let go of our needs. KMS, or Kerio Mail Server, is a good example of this.
