Hi Thomas,
good to hear from you!
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:00:51PM +0200, Thomas Seiler wrote:
What I'm
personally surprised though is why nobody hires people (like us)
to develop translators / gateways between those dialects. That's
probably a hell lot cheaper than replacing your core network from one
vendor with another vendor...
Hm, Consider this: For a network operator, the game is to get as close
to 99.999....% uptime as economically possible.
well, that (as well as the remaining argument) is true at least here in
Europe. It's much different if you go to other places of the world...
This is the oh-so-familiar argument on why many
companies use
exclusively Microsoft, or everything Apple, etc...
ACK, it's the same story all over again. And still in each of the
PC, Desktop, Server, Application Software, OS, etc. markets you see much
more mix + match than in the GSM world... Even if you look at IP
networks, not _everything_ is cisco, you commonly find heterogenous
installations.
Regards,
Harald
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