Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Stefaan A Eeckels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The European Commission just installed a new mail system based on > MS Exchange. If you ask me, they deserve it. Everyone deserves the software he is using. AFAIK, NATO is using Exchange, too. May their pain be barely sufferable. Felix

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 04-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I love their claims of scalibility with their mail server. "UNIX-like > > scalability at a fraction of the cost". Hurrumph. How much does it cost > > to put Linux and Qmail on an old Pentium or Pentium II? > > I would guess at around $10,000 for t

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would guess at around $10,000 for the installation, and then around > $1000/month ? I'll do it for $7500 and $750 a month. Whatabargain! Scott

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread richard
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Sam Trenholme wrote: > I love their claims of scalibility with their mail server. "UNIX-like > scalability at a fraction of the cost". Hurrumph. How much does it cost > to put Linux and Qmail on an old Pentium or Pentium II? I would guess at around $10,000 for the installa

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-03 Thread Sam Trenholme
[Snip. Typical cluless marketing BS about people moving form UNIX to Windows 2000, since Windows 2000 is so obviously more secure, scalale, and low-cost for running a SMTP server, than, say a Linux+Qmail or a OpenBSD+Qmail setup] > Jan. 25, 2000 This is out of date. > http://www.sirana.com

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-03 Thread Peter Cavender
I find it curious that they refer to sendmail as "shareware". I though that shareware was software that one voluntarily paid for if they used it after some "evaluation" period. It seems a lot of people do not understand the definition of anything other than closed-source, commercial software -

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
Stephen Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems to me that sendmail.org has decided to redefine the word > "majority" as being 40% instead of more than half like Webster's > unabridged dictionary. Technically they have a plurality, not a majority, if you believe these figures -- which I don't.

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-02 Thread Stephen Berg
After I got this email on the list I sent an email to sendmail.org asking for some supporting material to their website's claim of sendmail powering "the vast majority" of email servers. They replied with the mail that I'm including below as their response. Seems to me that sendmail.org has de