[olug] old news - but worth noting

[Trent Melcher]

I just wish the folks at RAV would have looked past the money and
realized what is going to happen to a fine product when M$ gets their
hands on it.

Look what happened to Visio, I used it prior to M$ buying it.  Once they
did IMO the product went downhill and I stopped using/buying it.

Trent 


On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:55, Jay Hannah wrote:
> Trent Melcher wrote:
> > I wish I was looking for just AV software, then my search would be
> > easier.  What is nice about RAV is that it a corporation grade
> > SPAM/Antivirus/Content filter.  Im able to scan all email coming in and
> > going out of all 17 of our domains.  
> 
> Yup. Must be good stuff or M$ wouldn't have bothered buying it to kill
> it, eh? We're not happy either. Gotta love 'em. Wherefore art though,
> justice department?
> 
> > I only run sendmail on Linux, so Im limited as to what to use.
> 
> You've got a typo there. I think that sentence, spelled correctly, is:
> "Obviously, of all possible mail server configurations I only run
> sendmail on Linux because it's fast, stable, free, extremely scalable,
> and maintenance free. Groupware (no matter how fancy) is certainly not
> worth a 100X hit on costs, hardware requirements, scalability, and
> stability. It's unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be a lot of other
> companies like RAV on the market. If there were, M$ would have had to
> make a few *more* people rich to hold it's monopoly, killing all
> competition in infancy. Even though buying out 5 competitors would have
> been only a few more drops out of the bottomless M$ money bucket, they
> would have at least scratched the juggernaut a little more on their way
> off the market."
> 
> Not that I'm bitter about RAV or anything. 
> 
> Sigh,
> 
> j
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Trent Melcher <tmelcher at trilogytel.com>