Re: (OT) SMTP: OBSD <-> Win2000

[Emre <emre@srengineering.com>]

On Sunday 14 January 2001 10:24, Pablo Bucich wrote:

>
> 	Internally, we'll have Exchange (and there is no possible exchange)
>
> 	Can you give me some pointers to serious comparisions about Win2000
> Advanced Server SMTP/Net security and OBSD/Unix ? Or the names of companies
> that are currently using OBSD as SMTP server ?

Tell them hotmail is running with Unix+qmail :)  They're not using 
openbsd...but hey, still unix.  Also check http://www.openbsd.org/users.html 


>            SMTP will extend soon to SMTP+DNS+Proxy+WWW

Tell your boss (or whoever is in charge of the decision) to go check bugtraq 
archives and see how many Win2K/IIS bugs are versus Unix/Apache.  That should 
convince them NOT to run IIS in the future.

Also, if I was in your position, I would try to explain to them that the cost 
of upgrading (software/hardware) and fixing bugs with openbsd is much less 
than with Microsoft's products.


Cheers

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