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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
FYI, Just let it be known, That here at Erols we use LINUX all over
the network from accounting servers to authentication server to WWW
servers to DNS servers.
We even developed a radius that is far more optimized for speed then
just about anything out there, LINUX has a BIG presence out
in the ISP industry.
Jason Nealis
Erols Internet
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, David Lesher wrote:
> Matt Holdrege sez:
> > >This is simply solved by picking a stable distribution of Linux and
> > >supporting that. Redhat or Caldera would probably be a good choice.
> >
> > Ah, but which one? Who chooses? And what about all those ISP's that use
> > FreeBSD and NetBSD? Another thought. If you are going to pay for an Ascend
> > commercial software product, why not pay for a Unix commercial product?
>
> Well, RedHat has a major effort underway to work with commercial
> folks....
>
> There are several reasons RH Linux is getting widespread use in
> commercial settings; cost is often the least of them.. And if it
> an issue; every cent spent on the OS is money not available to
> send on Ascend gear.....
>
>
> --
> A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
> & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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