On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:03:49PM -0800, Greg Zartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I can understand Mitel's view of paying customers vs the others. A company > couldn't survive if it gave it's product away to everyone for free. It only > makes sense that you would respond most to the needs of those who pay for > you products and services. I'll will be a little blunt here in saying that > it is a bit offensive that Mitel seems to view us here in this group as > freeloading on it's work....
That was not my intention - Darrell stated that the release was not compelling enough for him. Our customers believe we have a compelling offering in our supported product SME Server V5 with ServiceLink. This includes support, Virus Protection, IPSEC VPNs, automated DNS publishing, reliable email with automated backup with more features to come. Charlie and I were stating that we have other drivers, and not all of the features of 5.1 are available in the public release. Charlie also stated technical reasons why we can't move to the 2.4 kernel right now without losing features which our customers require. > I can't see how Darrel's comments about version 5.1 are different from any > of the other comments/suggestions made here. You at Mitel could say "Hey, > that's a great idea" or "We don't have time for that right now." I believe that releasing 5.1 into Beta is a statement of what we can achieve in the 5.1 release. > Maybe this group would grab one of the issues by the horns and fix > is on our own, who knows. Either way, we'd all still be here trying > to make SME a better OS. Sure, and we all benefit from that. > Yes, I get a free OS out of all of this, but Mitel gets ALOT of free > professional consultation from this group (not to imply that my fumbling > around in this form be considered professional consultation by any means.) We strongly value the contribution by everyone on this list. And in return we integrate as much as we can in the time available. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
