[olug] old news - but worth noting

[Trent Melcher]

Another article on M$ aquisition........

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/11/HNrav_1.html


On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:22, Trent Melcher wrote:
> 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>