[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7qk1dmF8ebU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> When you install server software on them.  I can install sendmail on
> a PC, too.  But I know better.  Windows actually used to install lots
> of server apps on desktops.  And people complained about the insecurity.
> Now we have people complaining because they stopped doing it.  MS can't
> win no matter what they do, but then, that's the nature of religious
> beliefs wether they are for or against something.

   The server software, however, is free with the VMS, UNIX, and Linux.
   And none of the versions of the MS Outhouse client that I've had
   access to would operate as an SMTP client.  You have to buy and
   install the Outhouse server.
   
   And since I'm forced to use Outhouse by one of my clients, I can
   see the shortcomings of it's server.