Re: [Cooker] TAKE MY BRAIN OFF THIS DAMN METHADONE FOR THE LAST TIME!

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 07:19, Leon Brooks wrote:
> I can't find a reference for the last line, but I did stumble across an
> interesting editorial...
>
>     We get most of our server consolidation with Exchange 2000,"
>     Devenuti says. But he expects to be able to push the number
>     of users per server from about 3,000 on Exchange 2000 to
>     5,000 on Titanium. [/ME notes that Linux can handle at least
>     2,000,000 per box using dear old klunky SendMail as per
>     http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/sendmail828.cfm and that tests
>     http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/postfix/bench2.html
>     show PostFix delivering typically twice as much as SendMail]
>

Yes but Exchange is not just an MTA, it is also the server for your Outlook, 
does IMAP, POP, and calendering stuff as well.

I doubt the typical Linux PC server would handles 4million plus concurrent 
users, when running Postfix, Cyrus, and a calendering app also.

> ...with this breathtakingly bold reader comment while I was looking:
>
>     Microsoft has done a great job of putting powerful tools in
>     the hands of clueless morons. [...] Keep in mind people,
>     Windows is the "Etch-A-Sketch" of the computer world.
>
> Cheers; Leon

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John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:john.allen@online.ie
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