Re: Email on the Iseries or not

Agreed...it's the software...the hardware and OS are great...

On 11/10/05 04:19 PM, "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> It's like anything else...if the only tool you have is a hammer, then all
>> problems must be able to be solved with a hammer. The iSeries is the best
>> system on the market for the things it does well...and it does many things
>> well...but other boxes do other things better.
> 
> Shrug... It's not that the "box" makes a lousy e-mail server, it's that
> the software that's currently available for it is lacking.
> 
> If you wrote some good e-mail software for the iSeries, it'd be a great
> box for e-mail because the design (the features provided by SLIC,
> single-level-store, etc) would make that software more robust than the
> same thing running on a PC or Unix platform.
> 
> But, as it stands, there's just better software available elsewhere.