October 3, 2008
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A few years back, when Mozilla spun Firefox out from the Mozilla Internet Suite, Thunderbird, its e-mail client got almost as much press and attention as the Web browser. Now, Thunderbird appears to be a neglected stepchild. While Firefox is … Continue reading
August 28, 2008
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Over the years, many of Microsoft monopolies have been successfully attacked by open source: Linux on the server; Apache for Web servers; Firefox for Web browsers; and so on. The one exception, and it’s a big one, is business e-mail. … Continue reading
August 28, 2008
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No one saw this coming. Cisco, the networking giant, announced today it was buying PostPath, maker of the Linux-based Exchange server replacement PostPath Server. PostPath is best known as a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange. Unlike other would-be Exchange competitors … Continue reading
August 26, 2008
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Once upon a time at a NASA space flight center a long way away, I was an e-mail administrator. At the time, the 1980s, e-mail was still chaotic. The RFC 822 standard was only beginning to bring rhyme and reason … Continue reading
August 19, 2008
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Just when you thought it was safe to look in your in-box again, a new wave of malware spam has arrived. Lucky us. This morning I found my Gmail spam box stuffed with “BREAKING NEWS” purporting to be from MSNBC. … Continue reading
June 4, 2008
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CIOs and CTOs have a problem. Their users want to use their iPhones and iPod Touch devices for business in the worse way and there’s no good way—yet—to get business Internet applications to an iPhone or the like. Well, until … Continue reading