>From: Einar Stefferud <Stef(_at_)nma(_dot_)com>
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: Is PGP really more widespread than PEM?
>Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 15:26:40 -0800
>I will plead guilty to having stated that I find the X.400 market to
>be growing robustly in a linear pattern, but also note that the
>Internet EMail market is growing exponentially. I generally leave it
>to my audience to decide what this might mean.
Einar, there is nothing personal in the attack. You were just an
example based on statements you volunteered to the public. we all here
live by the word, and will no doubt die by it when we fail to measure
up to the speed of progress in the expanding service marketplace.
My fair point and example is, still, such a statement has little
meaning. The phrasing has obvious bias though. (Its as if you are trying
to say something passively.)
Perhaps the markets which each are growing in wholly different areas
with completely different margins and represent solution or infrastructure
versus commodity marketting.
Same with PEM and PGP, MSP and PEM...
A standards group encourages all modes of market expansion. Thats
what standards are for.