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CXOtoday: Lloyds Steel Debates Between Linux & Microsoft

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“The menace of spam has pushed Lloyds Steel Industries to
upgrade its mail server, for which the company has initiated a
complete evaluation of both Microsoft and Linux based mailing
solutions.

“”Detailing the proposed IT initiative to CXOtoday, Tanveer
Ahmed, EDP officer, Lloyds Steel Industries Ltd., said,
‘Approximately 70 to 80% of our daily mails are spam that lead to
considerable downtime. Thus the productive time of an employee is
wasted in validating and deleting these mails. We therefore plan to
get a comprehensive mailing solution for our enterprise…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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