Seriously, is it only me or hasn't there been a few too many map-related news reports lately just telling the same craigslist story over and over again? *yawn*
The question on how to build large e-mail systems has produced an interesting thread on the available technology.
But if you have an organization with 25K+ people who need e-mail, are you sure you need to set up an e-mail system? These 25K people probably need lunch every day, and clean underware, but that does not imply that the employer must provide these services. Could you not just tell them to get Hotmail accounts?
Seriously, this should be an option for schools and universities, maybe even for companies. If security is the problem, then security should be a problem for all users of Hotmail and similar systems. How can Hotmail (or similar service vendors) provide enough security? Maybe if all e-mail is required to be PGP encrypted? Think of it. Which fortune 500 company will be first to outsource their e-mail to Hotmail?
Wrote anonymous on Monday: > Seriously though 24/7 can be done with > present day technology. The phone system > comes to mind.
On Thursday/Friday two Swedish magazines carried a story about upstart "Bluetail", a spinoff from Ericsson. These people have a telecom background and their "Mail Robustifier" product is just out in release 1.0. Written in the Erlang programming language used by Ericsson in telephone exchanges, it does load sharing between "mail servers" (I'm not sure whether this means SMTP or POP3/IMAP) and promises 99.999 % uptime. The targeted market is large or medium scale ISPs.
With more problems like eBay's we should see more telecom people moving over to doing web-related products. Either telecom companies will change their business or there will be spinoffs like Bluetail, http://www.bluetail.com/
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Seriously, is it only me or hasn't there been a few too many map-related news reports lately just telling the same craigslist story over and over again? *yawn*
The question on how to build large e-mail systems has produced an interesting thread on the available technology.
But if you have an organization with 25K+ people who need e-mail, are you sure you need to set up an e-mail system? These 25K people probably need lunch every day, and clean underware, but that does not imply that the employer must provide these services. Could you not just tell them to get Hotmail accounts?
Seriously, this should be an option for schools and universities, maybe even for companies. If security is the problem, then security should be a problem for all users of Hotmail and similar systems. How can Hotmail (or similar service vendors) provide enough security? Maybe if all e-mail is required to be PGP encrypted? Think of it. Which fortune 500 company will be first to outsource their e-mail to Hotmail?
Wrote anonymous on Monday:
> Seriously though 24/7 can be done with
> present day technology. The phone system
> comes to mind.
On Thursday/Friday two Swedish magazines carried
a story about upstart "Bluetail", a spinoff from
Ericsson. These people have a telecom background
and their "Mail Robustifier" product is just out
in release 1.0. Written in the Erlang programming
language used by Ericsson in telephone exchanges,
it does load sharing between "mail servers" (I'm
not sure whether this means SMTP or POP3/IMAP)
and promises 99.999 % uptime. The targeted
market is large or medium scale ISPs.
With more problems like eBay's we should see more
telecom people moving over to doing web-related
products. Either telecom companies will change
their business or there will be spinoffs like
Bluetail, http://www.bluetail.com/