On Jan 14, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Jonathan wrote: > At the risk of hijacking this thread, has anyone got any experience with > Symantec Brightmail? Available as a VMware image.
I consulted with Symantec some years ago on their Norton Anti-Virus for Internet E-mail Gateways, and I have some knowledge of their Brightmail product. NAVIEG was a good idea at the time, but no one in the company knew squat about anything other than Microsoft (an issue that has never really changed), so they outsourced development to a company in India, and that process did not go well. Although the code technically ran, it wasn't translated into a proper Unix mode of operation, they just did the absolute minimum necessary changes to get the code to compile on the "other" platform. I don't think it ever really went anywhere beyond working as an additional piece of software running alongside Microsoft Exchange under Windows NT. With regards to Brightmail, they had a good initial concept, but all the good work and the good developers got tossed out when they discovered that it was just too expensive to continue to develop and maintain the product as it was originally conceived. Humans are just too expensive for them. -- Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
