I was just looking through all the sites that took us up on the Free 
Maestro license to the first 100 sites that upgrade to 14.4 (offer is 
still open), and I noticed that only Windows, Linux, and Solaris 
sites took advantage of the offer. 

Now, those 3 operating systems happen to make up the majority of 
LISTSERV customers, but I got to wondering whether the sites with 
"other" operating systems thought that since Maestro is only 
available on Windows, Linux, and Solaris (and now Mac), that the 
offer did not really apply to them. 

So I just wanted to point out to you folks running on "other" 
operating systems: the only OS that this offer does not apply to is 
VM, and that's because of the lack of TCPIP support on VM. You can 
have a Maestro running on Windows, Linux, Solaris, or Mac talking to 
LISTSERV running on OpenVMS, FreeBSD, HP-UX or any of the other 
operating systems, except for VM. 

LISTSERV and the Maestro interface don't *have* to be running on the 
same system or even on the same OS. Certain features may be 
unavailable under those conditions (for example Maestro-backed 
LISTSERV lists require that LISTSERV have access to the database, and 
that access is not available for every supported DBMS on every 
operating system), but the features that are there are still worth 
it. 

I just thought I'd mention that before the Windows, Linux, and 
Solaris crowd gobbles up all the free licenses due to a 
misunderstanding.

Offer is at:
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_144_offer.asp

-- 
Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>

Knowledge is just a click away: http://www.lsoft.com/optin.html