Hi everyone, I'm the SA at a regional ISP in Canada. We've about 7500 dialup clients, and are pretty much a Debian linux shop (6 main servers). We also do web hosting, colocation, and some broadband. Currently we use an in-house Apache/PHP/perl billing system [roughly equivalent to freeside or billmax in capability, though I think mine is better ;) ], but the company owners are questioning whether to keep maintaining our current software or buy something ready made. The product at the top of their list is RODOPI (rodopi.com). My question is how many other debian ISP's are using it and what their experiences are like? What is it like to integrate with and provision services on Apache, Sendmail, Radius etc? Are there other (ideally unix) alternatives?
So far I've looked at: OptiGold - http://www.digitalpoint.com/products/isp/ FreeSide - http://www.sisd.com/freeside/ Billmax - http://www.billmax.com/ Emerald - http://www.iea-software.com/products/emerald/ Finally, one thing I've been considering is to use SQL-Ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.org/) as a core accounting system and re-write my recurring billing and provisioning programms as add on modules. I can't promise that I'd be able to do this, but if there are interested co-developers / potential users email me off list. I'll use those as an argument to not abandon our in house code and open-source the project. Thank you all for your time and input. Sincerely, Kirk Ismay System Administrator The Net Idea