I have been trying to figure out where Oracle would settle out in all this, given that they've been completely quiet on it thus far, near as I can tell.

We would see the corruption on databases that weren't being shut down, just one day it was fine, the next it was corrupt.

Online archive requires *either* that users be proactive in doing so, or that as administrators you're just (by policy) ripping messages out of their mailbox and putting them somewhere else on an automated basis. The former is pretty difficult to convince folks to do, the latter would not be acceptable at pretty much any place I've ever worked (folks want to organize their mail "their way so they can find things easily") and automated tools changing that goes against how they use mail.

- Individual Mailboxes getting "too big" (FSVO "big") and Exchange performing badly with them
- Frequent corruption of the mailstore requiring repairs and usually resulting in the loss of n>0 messages

Those are two complaints I remember being most common from folks who've dealt with it.

Environments, plural. I've yet to see an employer where their exchange wasn't a giant raging nightmare.

From a user standpoint, absolutely, it's awesome. From an admin side, it's rampant chaos.

YMMV

BWAHAHAHAHA.

Thanks for the mid-afternoon laugh.

At scale, Exchange is a right PITA to run.

Lots of those Very Large Companies are just outsourcing their e-mail because it's a major-league-bitch to run it themselves.

And then it's discovered, and they find themselves in a very actionable position.

It would, in fact, be a selling point.

We care so much about you that we're not going to cave in like our competitors whose phones you can buy.

Where it would become interesting is in how the carrier-stores (Verizon Store, Sprint Store, etc.) would choose to deal with it, since Apple would be unwilling to ship them product to sell in NY.

Having been through a similar rodeo, it's just a matter of showing a different set of paperwork that shows "when orgA dissolved, all of its assets were transferred legally to orgB", at which point any representative of orgB has the same power over it because it's a transferred asset which just hasn't had some paperwork corrected at the registrar.

I agree with the other commenter with regards to "expect pushback from the agencies saddled with it."

Absolutely.

But the only chance gun-owners are going to even come close to accepting this is if the kinks are so worked out of them that the people most at risk of going mano a mano with a perp who wants to take their gun are trusting their lives to a given tech. And that means agencies working those kinks out in the field and proving the validity of the tech under real world conditions.

The question is was the statement credible. Ie. Was it.

{solemn voice}"Yes. I have a bomb."

Or was it:

{Laughter}"Yeah, dude. I totalllly have a bomb in there. Of course I do."

Considering that the TSA considers the second to be a reason to deny you air travel, even though no court in the world would consider it a credible admission of such, we have no way of knowing which of these two scenarios played out in the principal's office.

And since you:

[a] cost them resources, and
[b] deny them revenue

They:

[c] are actively trying to *encourage* you to go elsewhere and be a drain on someone else's resources.

Been there. Done that.

What you want is "git blame" for bills.

I'm an adult, and I rarely answer any number I don't recognize immediately. If it's important, they'll leave a voicemail and I'll call them right back at the number they provide.

But since 99.99% of the calls I receive from un-recognized numbers are horseshit robo-calls, no, I agree with commenter above: Why on earth would someone answer the phone any more?