Nook8081 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Ooo, that's intresting. I have always wondered about email in the
2000's.
Lots of on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers. 16GB data store limits
for your entire company unless you sprung for the enterprise edition.
Long periods of database maintenance on the weekends, and all running
on Windows Server 2000. Stable, as Windows server OSes went, but it was
still a 23/6 operation.
Occasionally, you'd need to connect to an environment running Lotus
Notes for no reason except to justify having a team of people writing
customizations for Notes because someone decided to write some workflow
in Notes.
The occasional WordPerfect Office environment, similarly customized and
broken.
Then, lots of people running on Solaris and linux boxes, most likely
running UW IMAP or Courier IMAP, NNTP and LDAP. That combination worked
well, and you could make Outlook play nice with it for most things.
Or, just run Netscape Communicator, I don't think Thunderbird came out
until later.
... A closed system lacks the ability to renew itself.
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