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August 28, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Sendmail, Inc. (sendmail.com), a
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leading provider of Internet messaging solutions,
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announced yesterday the immediate availability of its
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complete line of products for Linux on the IBM
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mainframe. Sendmail Switch, Sendmail Advanced Message
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Server and Sendmail Mobile Message Server on Linux for
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the mainframe provide cost-effective email systems
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with high scalability, reliability and manageability.
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Performance tests conducted by Sendmail, Inc. and IBM
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demonstrate that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframe
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can support more than 2 million users, making it the
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largest single-server email systems on Linux available
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in the industry. For organizations requiring larger
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environments, Sendmail’s cluster architecture allows
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customers to harness multiple mainframes to
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transparently serve an even greater number of users.
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“Service providers and a growing number of enterprises
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see centralized email hosting as the preferred way to
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provide the scalability and reliability needed to deal
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with increasing email usage and message complexity,”
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said Mark Levitt, research director, IDC. “The
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mainframe environment is a strong platform for
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centralized email hosting, especially for
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organizations already using mainframes for
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mission-critical applications with high performance
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requirements.”
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Today large enterprises consider email as a critical
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business system and require the high reliability and
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low total cost of ownership. Impressive cost
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reductions can be obtained for enterprises that
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already host critical business applications on a
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mainframe by adding the Sendmail solution as an
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additional workload. Or, distributed enterprises can
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consolidate multiple departmental or divisional mail
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servers onto a single highly reliable platform. In
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both cases, the company says the mail system
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reliability improves while hardware and system
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administration costs are substantially reduced.
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“There is no debating that email is a vital
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application for conducting business today,” said Greg
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Olson, executive vice president business development
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of Sendmail, Inc. “Most larger companies already run
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their critical applications on the mainframe platform
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because it provides a level of reliability unmatched
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by any other system with a total cost of ownership
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optimized over 30 years. For these companies email is
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best served on their mainframes.”
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Sendmail solutions on Linux for the IBM eServer z900
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are available today. For product and pricing
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information, please visit the company’s Web site.
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Sendmail, Inc. will be exhibiting Aug. 28-30, 2001, at
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Linux World in San Francisco in booth no. 1144.
