On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:00:37PM +0200, Frans Haarman wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any good benchmark
> programs for qmail (and qmail-pop3). I need
> to prove to a `we only sell microsoft' kinda
> guy that opensource IS the way to go in some
> situations.
If you want to run the benchmarks yourself, check out the "postal"
package. It comes with two programs, "postal", which sends a stream of
SMTP messages, and "rabid", which consumes them through either POP3 or
IMAP.
However, if you want to prove anything to management, speed numbers
aren't going to buy you much (as many people will tell you). You would
likely be better off to point to other major success stories, which the
front page of http://www.qmail.org/ has, as well as
http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-sites.html, and/or to do a cost-benefit
analysis showing them them how the OSS solution will benefit them.
That's how I was able to shoehorn Linux into our NT-crowded WAN.
I've heard that most analysts are forecasting 2x to 10x licensing cost
increases on most MS products as soon as next year, once the anti-trust
trial goes into infinite appeal mode. Does anybody else have more
authoritative forecasts on that front other than just hearsay?
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
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