Since there are a number of good alphanumeric paging packages available, I wanted to have a way to compare features and functionality. As a result, I threw together a quick marketing table, and included a bunch of qualities that I found to be important when looking for paging software.

	Beepage	QPage	Sendpage
Delivers pages via TAP over a modem	Yes	Yes	Yes
Uses daemon for queue management	Yes	Yes	Yes
Can utilize multiple modems	Yes	Yes	Yes
Takes pages via SNPP	No (uses TPP)	Yes	Yes
Maintainer's web site has a list of Paging Centrals	No	Yes	Yes
Can deliver to separate paging centrals in parallel	Yes	No	Yes
Sends Email CCs and status info	Yes	No	Yes
Released under the GNU General Public License	No (BSD)	No	Yes
Written in Perl for easy porting	No	No	Yes