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

[John Vottero]

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:AGeXP7lvdb$4 at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> 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.

Server editions of Windows include an SMTP server and a POP server.  You 
don't have to buy Outlook or Exchange or anything else.