How does Messaging Server compare to competitive offerings from other vendors?
A. Messaging Server, by virtue of its support for open protocols, allows organizations to deploy a back-end messaging system that works seamlessly with their existing Internet-compliant messaging servers and clients. Customers are not forced into using any particular vendor s technology to solve their messaging needs. With Messaging Server customers are free to choose any POP3 or IMAP4 client they wish. The ability to support server-side backups and other administrative tasks is open to any client connected to Messaging Server. Messaging Server also scales better and outperforms proprietary messaging systems. The architecture of the server allows it to support several thousand users per server unlike traditional proprietary messaging systems, which average only several hundred users per server. Since the server is based on open protocols, unnecessary document conversions, address remapping, and attachment encodings are not performed, improving the throughput to the messaging network. F
