> Nate and Mike drive home the point that GNU/Linux isn't fit-for-purpose when > it comes to telco. I trust that isn't much of a suprise to those who are > aware of the requirements and isn't much to be bothered about either. I only > mention this because of rabid GNU/Linux partisans who can be rather manic > about FLOSS being everywhere and doing everything. Their enthusiasm is > endearing even if misdirected IMO. >
Those arguments only hold in a restricted number of countries: Remebering my first post: Mean response times after asking for support: Sparc/Solaris: 1 week (soft) 3 monthes (hard) IBM PPC/AIX: 4 days (soft)/ 1 week (hard) x86/Linux: 6 hours (soft)/ 1 hour (hard) And I am not talking of the costs of the various solution, since probably the x86 solution will be have some smuggled parts while the Sparc will not (80% taxes difference). > FLOSS is about politics and economics as much as it is about good software. > There are areas such as telco where the natural forces just don't come > together to enable it -- yet. Who knows what the future may bring. The natural forces beeing the anti-natural capitalistic driven insurance companies? That remembers me the "certificated" UNIX issue. A product is not better because it is "certificated", the "certificate' only shows it had the money to get the certificate. Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]