November 2001
The internet continues to get more
complicated, web browsers do more and other web enabled
applications proliferate, but simple ASCII text email is still the
most popular application by far. If you don’t think email
software is very sexy, just wait until the next time your mail box
fails to connect and produce and see who excitable you get. It’s
the Cinderella software application all right, and like me, you
probably trust your mail lifeblood to one of the nastiest things
Microsoft has ever come up in the shape of Outlook that trashes
files that your thoughtlessly permit to grow beyond 2Gbyte..
When Outlook bit me in the arse (again), I
resolved to look for a supported alternative, and was reminded
that the UK company, Gordano, make mail software, and have done
for long enough to know what they are doing. And despite the fact
that this sounds either foreign or contrived by a branding agency,
it’s actually the name of place in Somerset, madder famous as An
M5 service area). The product as originally called NTMail, and
that was of course a tad limiting in terms of the lifespan of the
“NT” brand, and other platforms.
Gordano is one of a handful of developers of
industrial strength email servers and solutions, and also one of
handful of internet businesses making a living from delivering
internet products and solutions “with their clothes on”, so to
speak. I promised to mention them in dispatches recently when they
got their Linux server edition available, because as anyone knows,
email and Unix were meant for each other. GLMail (Gordano Linux
Mail) is something I
would unreservedly commend to any organisation that wanted the
industrial strength of UNIX combined with a supported product with
many more frill than the freeware mail servers out there.
The people at Gordano have been at it for a
long time, too, and this is reflected in the anti spam, anti virus
and other tactics that their products deploy. On top of all this,
their web site is also an example of decent navigation tactics –
unlike the subject of the next rant about Sony…
http://www.gordano.com/
By
now, I would have hoped that a website with clear navigation and
perfect information content wasn’t so rare that I felt compelled
to feature a picture in Rants. Sadly, it is.
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