MajorDomo

matthew_heusser at mcgraw-hill.com matthew_heusser at mcgraw-hill.com
Tue Oct 9 07:06:26 CDT 2001


So, here's the theoretical question of the hour:

  You walk into a meeting about List-Serv management software,
someone throws out the number "We will pay around $1,500."

  You respond "uh, dude, MajorDomo is Free."

  Which begs the questions "But we'd have to recompile it and
port it to Win32."

  "Well, uh, like, no.  For $1,500 we could buy a linux box and just
like, run it and stuff.  For $750 we could do that."

  "But we don't do UNIX."

  "So we could rent space somewhere for $10/month and run a list-serv."

  "We don't do off-site hosting."

  "But it's not web-hosting, and other division out-source thier list-services;
that's why we need to get our own."

  "We'd have to re-compile it."

  "Well, uh, no, MajorDomo is a Perl script."

  "If it's open source, we'd have to look at the code."

  "Well, not really, and it's in Perl, which is one of our core competencies."

  "MajorDomo has security holes."

  "Really?  It's been around for years.  Everybody uses it.  A search on
Yahoo for 'Security Majordomo' lists a few common problems, but those
are really just problems for administrators that fail to perform due diligence.
Majordomo is relatively secure"

  "No.  It's got all kinds of security holes."

  "Is this proof by repeated assertion, or just Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt?
(FUD) - I can never tell those two apart ... "

  -- So, all that said, hypthetically, where would you take this discussion?
(And keep it civil ...)

regards,

Matt H.








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