Re: Open source vs. proprietary software

[Volker Kindermann <freebsd () secspace de>]

Hey Paul,

> How do you feel about using open source software as opposed to vendor-
> supplied/licensed software? I'm talking about the general case rather
> than specifics, about things like implementations of Secure Shell,
> security scanners etc.
>
> If you have any experience of support issues with one or the other,
> I'd be interested in hearing about them too.

one of my customers is a quite big banking corporation here in germany.
About two years ago, they put two mailservers running linux w. postfix
in front of their lotus notes mailservers.

Their experience is:

- postfix is running very stable and reliable
- support via the mailing list is very good
  -> less complicated and better than commercial support
- very low maintenance costs for postfix

Hope that helps you a bit

 -volker

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