Wow that's back in time :) It's an interesting history with AOL and how many times they have re-invented themselves and managed to survive quite well until they were bought.
-----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:00 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outsourced Email The AOL email system ran on a network of Tandem NonStop systems back in the day. It was all custom at that time. I worked at Tandem at the time, and we had regular weekly shipments of machines going to AOL. I think the sales rep retired on the commissions. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/19/2016 8:54 AM, Paul Stewart wrote: > It is a pretty slick system (and expensive) .. I never seen a > communigate pro system though that was scaled up. I'm assuming this > 'spec' was for AOL when they first started out back in the day? > There's no way you can run a system of that size on a single server ;) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of D. Ryan Spott > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 11:13 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outsourced Email > > I believe the original spec for Communigate was to run all of AOLs email on 1 > server. I would believe it. Bomb proof. > > The Russian guy that does most of the code is a freaking genius. > > It is as expensive as Exchange but so stable you will never touch it. > > Reselling hosted domains is trivial. You can give admins for your hosted > domains full reign of their domain and never have to worry about them. > > Pretty cool stuff. > > ryan >
