>Following each other around the lists today I see <g>.
"Great minds ..." or "birds of a ....." vbg
Which is why an ultra high performance disk storage system is required. There
>are several options, but hardware based intelligent disk I/O as per a good
>RAID
>system or a SAN or NAS, preferably with write back cache would make a
>tremendous
>difference.
yes, I would like to use ASUS' RAID5 controller with 128 megs of controller
cache under my FreeBSD/postfix platform (see http://IMGate.MEIway.com), but
Asus won't publish the specs so the Linux driver could be ported to
FreeBSD. We use Asus' big 7500 servers now and are very pleased with
them. Dell's equivalent was twice the price.
> > >Whereas other mail servers have hard-coded message receipt and storage
> > >functions iMS relies on ColdFusion to make many decisions.
>
>I see that as a plus.
in the msg receipt area, the SMTP protocol has to be respected, so one
can't get too creative there.
in the msg storage area, well there's not too much hardcoding imo in MTA's
such as postfix or similar. I'm not sure what Howie's referring to.
> > btw, Howie, for a candidate "iMS mail application", take a look at
> > www.Mustang.com's own "IMS", vbg.
>
>That's nothing to what iMS_could_do!
Sure, but who's done it?
>Have you used Mustang Message Centre?
I've DL'd it, read the specs, questioned the mustang people closely on the
licensing and technical capacity of the entry levell product in the IMS
range, but haven't run it up yet. iMS might steal into first place just as
a platform for an IMS app. We'd like to offer an IMS service to our
hosting clients.
It's well known that many co's spend a ton on bldng a web site and driving
traffic and then don't answer the web site email in good time, or at all,
something like 40% of webisites NEVER answer their website mail.
We think an IMS type of app wil be an easy service to sell since a
small/medium company wouldn't want buy and run its own IMS platform,
whereas a hosting service like us could amortize the IMS type app easily
over many hosting clients with little incremental cost to us per
incremental client.
>How proprietory/closed architecture is it?
totally closed, afaics, like typical commercial software. But Mustang is a
good company with good products and management, going back to my contact
with them years ago when I ran their Mustang BBS. I'm pleased that the seem
to have managed themselves and their products into the Internet area quite
well.
Len
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