This is a bomb shell going off.
I just got off the phone with my sales rep. I "think" I did a good job of restraining myself as she has no say in the decisions of the company.
What I will openly say is that John Korsak would not have allowed this to happen. Eric is a great guy, and I hope he had nothing to do with this decision.
Facts that I know of and others are confirming:
1. Imail will no longer be available as a separate product. No new service agreements will be sold. 2. Ipswitch has decided that this is the direction that they want to go in. 3. They are selling a package at a price that they believe the market will bear in comparison with the other servers out there, specifically mentioned was Exchange. (I am still shaking my head.) 4. They will loose customers over this change.
I suppose it is entirely possible that they may pick up customers in the corporate end of things, where collaboration software is certainly a big thing. We've never even used their calendaring.
I think part of this is probably due to the fact that open source mail servers are probably looking to kick Ipswitch's a**. Postfix is pretty easy to set up, though it would be nice if someone would release source code with SMTP auth support built in. Certainly if we go anywhere now, it is to Postfix (sendmail is way too ickky), where we have no licensing fees whatsoever. We'd still need to find a webmail and AV solutions.
-- A. Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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