PostPath (http://www.postpath.com/) is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Exchange - e.g no MAPI connector needed, they reverse-engineered the Exchange protocol.
However, Cisco bought them recently, and unlike most Cisco acquisitions (which continue on nearly unchanged, e.g Linksys), PostPath seems to have been swallowed up. I hear their intent is to turn PostPath into an email-as-a-service product. Thus, not available as an in-house server any longer. Sigh.
Cisco - make PostPath available for in-house (non-SAAS/cloud) servers again!
I've always figured a light saber would be a high energy plasma generated from within the hilt and contained in a magnetic bottle. The tricky part is getting the bottle to take the long cylindrical shape - hence the skill of a Jedi being needed to construct one. But that explains cutting through things quickly, and why (magnetic) shields can block them. Or why they can deflect blaster bolts (ie charged blasts of dense plasma, imo).
The article doesn't explain how *anything* about this "arc wave energy field" works or how it is shaped into a long cylinder or how it is kept to a certain length. At least with a magnetic bubble containing plasma, it's a little more explainable (except how to keep it a cylinder, not a round bubble...haven't quite figured out how that would work).
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones