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Re: (ASCEND) analyse RADIUS logs
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
> Julian Cowley wrote:
> > > There are two REALLY different markets. Most UNIX people are [sic]
> > > willing to put out money for software. They want their LINUX
> > > for nothing and their tools for free. How can Ascend make
> > > money there? Now on the NT market, people are willing to put
> > > money into products, so there IS a viable market for selling
> > > products on windoze.
> >
> > Ok, I'll go and forget that I ever had Netscape or Acrobat Reader (or even
> > Livingston's pminstall) on my SGIs, Suns and Linuxen.... How can
> > Ascend make money there?
>
> Comparing apples to oranges isn't fair. I was talking about ISP
> software, which is what the person originally asked. ISPs on unix
> typically sing the "free" song. Most have experience with UNIX and
> don't mind fiddling with the perl scripts and such. Its a different
> market for NT. Most are NOT that experienced and just want turn-key
> solutions.
But the programs that I outlined above pretty much are turn-key solutions.
Just because most Unix software tends to be freeware doesn't mean that you
can say that ISPs wouldn't be willing to spend money on a good front-end
for their management software. Now, we use pretty much whatever we have
lying around for ours -- Win95, WinNT, Macs, Unix -- but, it would make
the *most* sense for us to have an Ascend monitor on the boxes where our
RADIUS accounting is done. That happens to be Unix, like probably 99% of
other ISPs as well.
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