[ale] [Fwd: Linux Weaknesses, Comments]

[Jon-Michael J. DeBona]

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I'm not a member of ALE, but I subscribe to your mailing list.  I was
just wondering if anyone had any comments on the following letter.
Thanks.
 
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Marietta, GA 30067                          Fax:  (770) 425-1765
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We have had a number of requested from customers for things that require some 
special "setup" recently and that do not seem obvious with Linux.  We are in 
a competitive market here in Atlanta and are looking at other OS's i.e. Sun 
Solarus.  Here are some of the request.  (We are running 2.0.1 with Apache 
and Qpopper.)  People are asking for long mial names like 
firstname.lastname.company at theirdomain.com.  Our sendmail doesn't seem to 
handle this.  Also may need virtual mail servers and maybe virtual WEB 
servers.  Some of our subscribers are asking about secure servers, like 
Netscape,  real audio and the list goes on.  I've been told to switch to the 
Debian version and we may; but I think the kernel is the same.  Question is 
will Linux hold up for the more specialized tasks as well all expand on 
systems and grow up or will we all be switching to other OS's in the future?

I know there are a lot of Linux fans out there, but I'd like to here from 
some users that have switched and have good reasons why they did so.



David W. Huffman                                     <david at discom.net>
Discovery Communications, Inc.                           www.discom.net
775 Franklin Road  Suite 100                               770-425-5700 
Marietta, GA 30067                                    Fax: 770-425-1765
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