LISTSERV® for Mac® OS X Released Today
L-Soft's popular LISTSERV Email List Management Software is available for the Mac.
Bethesda, MD (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) August 3, 2005 -- LISTSERV®, the product that launched the email
list management industry in 1986, is being released today for Mac OS X. In a
market segment currently dominated by Linux®, LISTSERV for Mac OS X offers an
alternative for organizations that want to use UNIX®, but do not have the level
of expertise required by traditional UNIX systems. The Mac version of LISTSERV
is fully featured and provides all the power and functionality available on
Linux and other UNIX systems. ¹ The Mac OS X release also includes a Free
Edition of LISTSERV for hobby users.
"Today, 48% of UNIX LISTSERV
installations are based on Linux, and there is a real opportunity for the Mac in
that market, especially once the Intel servers are released," said Eric Thomas,
L-Soft's CEO and founder. "Linux and LISTSERV work great together, as long as
the system administrator has a solid knowledge of Linux and can manage the mail
system, the DNS, and of course Linux itself. When that is not the case, everyone
loses – Linux included. But, ultimately, Apple's success in that market will
depend on the availability of affordable entry-level Mac servers."
With
more than 110 million subscriptions worldwide, LISTSERV is the reference in the
email list management market. Available for BSD UNIX since 1994, it is a
time-tested product with a proven track record for reliability and
scalability.
"I don't think any other company developing list management
software has L-Soft's kind of experience, and it shows in the software. The
support and the features make LISTSERV well worthwhile. You can't beat 19 years
of experience working on the same kind of software for getting a very reliable
program with a very comprehensive set of features. This release brings all of
that experience to the Macintosh," Peter DiCamillo, a Lead Systems Programmer at
Brown University, stated. "The Mac OS X, which is very close to BSD UNIX, is a
fine server to run LISTSERV on," added DiCamillo, a Macintosh developer with two
decades of experience who has managed LISTSERV for the university through its
transition from BITNET to IBM VM to UNIX (Solaris).
LISTSERV scales
seamlessly from small organizations or workgroups to the most demanding
enterprise workloads. U.S. prices range from $450 to $12,000, depending on
capacity, edition and level of support. Consumers are generally better served by
a professionally managed hosting service, such as L-Soft's EASESM Home
service.
"It's exciting to know that I can specify an industrial strength
email solution to departments and clients who use the Macintosh platform.
There's also an economy here: the additional expense of running other servers or
operating systems is avoided because LISTSERV is available for people's
preferred and already existing platforms," said Bill Gruber, Email Administrator
with the City University of New York and 25-year server administration
professional who has overseen the university's LISTSERV lists, with hundreds of
thousands of subscriptions, since 1986. "If you have a Mac environment, why not
make the most of it by running a world-class product if you need to do so?"
Gruber added.
For additional product information, visit:
www.lsoft.com/products/listserv.asp
To download
LISTSERV for Mac OS X, visit:
www.lsoft.com/download/listserv.asp
¹ At this time,
F-Secure Anti-Virus, a third-party product bundled with the Linux version of
LISTSERV, is not available for Mac OS X.
About L-Soft
L-Soft, which
was incorporated in 1994, offers email list and opt-in email marketing software
and outsourcing services for managing email newsletters, discussion groups and
marketing campaigns. Recognized in 2004 as one of Maryland's top 50 fastest
growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche, L-Soft's products deliver
about 30 million messages a day to more than 110 million list
subscriptions.
For more information visit www.lsoft.com or contact L-Soft via email at: e-mail protected
from spam bots or call +1-800-399-5449 or +1 (301) 731-0440.
L-SOFT PRESS
CONTACT
Susan Brown Faghani
1-800-399-5449
LISTSERV is a
registered trademark licensed to L-Soft international, Inc.
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