On Sun, October 2, 2005 12:07, Patrick said: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:21 +0100, Wayne wrote: >> Hiyall, >> been following this for a while, just thought I would add a bit to the >> debate, but doesn't the Cisco system (Call Manager?) run on an Windows >> 2000 based server - if it was that bad why would Cisco choose to run it? > > Politics and cluelessness. There are rumours that Cisco's next CCM will > run Linux. Cisco also used Win2000 on their BBSM product. An amazing > piece of crap according to those who had to install it and maintain it. > You had to reboot the thing over and over. Sounds familiar? > >> Also 3Com use NT/2000 to run the H323 gateway. Admittedly the call >> processor runs on VXWorks but to cross the boundary of proprietary 3com >> and rest of world - they jump onto windows. > > VWWorks is as stable as it gets compared to M$. At least they had the > brains to put the important part on a Unix like OS. About the M$ part, > well, it's silly decisions like that that contribute to 3Com's fading > away. > > Regards, > Patrick >
*shrugs* SonicWALL (firewall company) have always had their Global Management System on Sun/Oracle and M$/SQL2000... The first combination was more stable from the onset, but the second has been sold many more times, at some point even pushing away development-time for the Sun/Oracle combination in favor of M$/SQL2000. They'd probably have dropped it if it hadn't been in use at a few very large sites (obviously run by people that *did* have a clue what they were doing!) >From the onset there have also been many crying for a Linux version, but again, M$/SQL2000 development took so much time, I still haven't seen a glimpse of it! Sometimes a company just doesn't have a choice, and in a market dominated by M$ manipulation, ehrr... monopolisation, you're quickly condemned to M$ if you need to sell to a large market! That doesn't make it a better plastform than Linux, but them ITC managers just don't know there's something out there that is more stable, more reliable, less costly, etc. -- Francesco Peeters ---- GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CA certificate. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users