Wietse, * Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <wie...@porcupine.org>: > As a few on this list may recall, it is 25 years ago today that the > "IBM secure mailer" had its public beta release. This was accompanied > by a nice article in the New York Times business section. > > There is some literature at https://www.postfix.org/press.html that > attests how this project accelerated open-source adoption by a very > large company. > > At the time there were several efforts by people inside IBM to do > open-source projects, but it was the NY Times article that brought > open source on the radar of the CEO. He then tasked people to come > up with an open-source strategy for IBM. > > As for the name Postfix, my colleagues and I had come up with > multiple names that were rejected each time (I still have some > Internet domains names from that time). We decided that this was > not going to work, released it as "IBM secure mailer", and then, > after IBM was no longer in control, changed the name to Postfix. > > That was a long time ago. Postfix has evolved as the Internet has > changed. I am continuing the overhaul of this software, motivated > by people like you on this mailing list.
your effort to create a secure mailer became the foundation upon I was able to build my business and the way you approach and design software has influenced how I think about software development fundamentally. You may not be aware of it but sentences like "Stop speculating! Start measuring!" have become cornerstones of my daily work routine. I enjoy the clarity you bring to the table and sometimes you really make me grin like back then when you wrote: "If you want to climb a mountain, don't start at the top." Thank you! p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
