In a message dated: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:04:15 EDT
Derek Martin said:
>Man, I'd really like to agree with that, but you must consider that a
>large chunk of those got it with their (commercial) operating system, and
>bought support contracts for said, making support for sendmail available
>by default.
True, they did get with their commercial Unix, and therefore get support for
it by default, but consider that most of the commercial Unix vendors sell
disproportionately more hardware support contracts than sw support contracts.
Most shops running sendmail very well may have a support contract for their
commercial system, but I'm willing to bet it doesn't cover OS support or
sendmail. And even if they did have a sw support contract that covered
sendmail (most likely because management made them), how often is it used?
Ever call Sun/DEC/HP tech support? If you're having a crisis, they're the
least likely to help you quickly! So it all comes down to having the
expertise in-house, and "doing it yourself".
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Seeya,
Paul
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