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From: ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Solution to NetWare <--> SMTP
Message-ID: <5418@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 88 12:07:09 GMT
References: <16157@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: ugogan@ecsvax.UUCP (Jim Gogan)
Organization: UNC - Chapel Hill
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In article <16157@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth) writes:
>
>There are products (Wollongong, FTP Software) to allow you to use your
>Ethernet adapter for both TCP/IP and Novell.
>
>I'm beta testing Wollongong's new TCP/IP GW that works with Novell or
>IBM NetBios network stations.  This operates off a dedicated workstation
>and supports SMTP with a simple user interface.
>
But doesn't Wollongong's product require EACH PC on the net
tbe running their WIN/TCP for DOS?  And at $395 a pop (as
opposed to "POP" - little mail humor there), can't that
get pretty steep?  (We've got about 5,000 micros here that
want connectivity to other systems and PC-based (i.e.
transparent) mail system that doesn't isolate them from
the rest of the world.)
Let's see, 5,000 times $395 (figure, maybe, a 20% educational
discount) .... yipes!!!

-- Jim Gogan / Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
-- 
     Jim Gogan                             mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET)
     Microcomputing Support Center
     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
     Chapel Hill, NC  27599