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- Date: 09 NOV 92 04:40:56 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
- From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: Re: Help with a choice of machines!
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- > The question is: I'd like to buy an Alpha workstation to do the job. VMS will
- > be ready, I am told, long before OSF. I really could buy just about anything
- > to do this job, although I really like Multinet and PMDF. What sort of
- > disappointments will I be likely to face in terms of WAIS and other network
- > services? Is the public-domain availability of neat new toys going to always
- > be a disappointment if I go with a Alpha/VMS box?
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- If you really like MultiNet and PMDF I think you'll have trouble trying to
- replace them in terms of capability, reliability, and technical support if
- you go with a UNIX machine. I'm naturally not an unbiased source of opinion
- on the matter, but I think you'll find PMDF and MultiNet offer significant
- value because their respective vendors focus their entire business on e-mail
- and TCP/IP. In the UNIX world no one focuses on either because the OS
- vendor includes an inferior implementation.
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
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