OT RE: Security implications ?

["Bruce Bauer" <bruce specialdevices com>]

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> 
> Well, we do :-(
> 
> I mean the university I work for does. To give you an example, they have
> bought a farm (of 8) Compaq Proliant 7000 servers to provide email
> (Groupwise from Novell). Currently they have only 2500 users on the
> system, and at times it is slow. I hate to think what will happen when
> they move everyone (50,000+) to the new system...... 
> 
> Only one of those servers running Sendmail or Qmail or ..... could have
> been doing a much better job.
> 
> And they wonder what happens to their A$M300+ annual budget???!!!!
> 
> 
> Hossein
I think you need some professional help from Novell.  It should only take one NetWare server to 
handle 2500 Groupwise accounts.  A friend of mine recently helped migrate Boeing from NetWare to 
NT.  (M$ made them an offer they couldn't refuse)  They had to replace the NetWare server that was 
handling 2500 Groupwise accounts with sixteen much more powerful NT servers running exchange to 
get an acceptable performance level.  Novell has proven systems handlings 200,000+ users.  Go to 
www.novell.com and look up Connecting Points.

No, I do not work for Novell, I just appreciate their products.

Bruce


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