> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:00:11PM +0800, Jerome Tan wrote: >> The reason why ISPs use Linux is because Linux comes with MOST of the >> functionalities and features they need, but that does not happen on >> the corporate world... would be interesting to know. > > > to add to my post, ISP's deal with data only in the megabits/second > scale who knows how many giga BYTES/s banks, telcos and the like have > to process... _ > of course, you should never underestimate the role of value added telco service providers like ISPs. bank maybe transfering a huge amout of data but that is plaintext data. ISPs have to contend with a whole lot of other types of data such as multimedia and others.
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