Re: Cleint Code and Billing functionality

[Lee Garrison]

Thanks for the thread on this. We're certainly aware of the platform 
concerns with Platypus and have heard about it from prospects. As you 
know, Tucows acquired Platypus with the Boardtown purchase and our 
primary concerns this year were to make sure the existing customers 
continued to receive upgrades and to integrate Platypus with OpenSRS 
(coming soon). Now we're looking forward at expanded features (for web 
hosters, for example) as well as at platform independence. What would 
you think of a Tucows hosted solution to address that or is it critical 
for you to host your own client/server app?
cheers
Lee Garrison
vp, product management
Tucows Inc.
www.tucowsinc.com
416.538.5441 direct
416.535.0123 main
On 15-Dec-04, at 12:45 PM, Gordon Hudson wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher X. Candreva" 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Cleint Code and Billing functionality


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, James Ussher-Smith wrote:
Why wouldn't you trust your business data in one of the most popular
database engines in the world? Personally I'd be very happy to store 
my
For the same reason I don't trust my data to Windows, one of the most
popular OS's in the world, or Outlook, the most popular e-mail client 
in the
world.

But to make it a not-so-religous arguement -- for a Unix-only shop it 
means
setting up a Windows server.

I think thats part of the issue.
We do provide windows hosting and SQL server for customrs but my 
experience of it has not been good.
Approx 6 to 10 times more work involved to keep it running securely 
and stable-y.
I can factor that into what I charge customers, but if its for our own 
use then thats just time and money lost.

Regards
Gordon Hudson
Hostroute.com Ltd
www.hostroute.net

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