Open Source for mission-critical systems (slightly OT)

[Jim Van Meggelen]

owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0400, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
>> Nortel's BCM50 small office telephony server is quite "loud and
>> proud" about running Linux.  Have a look:
>> 
>> 
> http://www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/events/2005a/ca>
> la_eseminars/ap 
>> r29pt/collateral/bcm50_eseminar_brazil_pt2.pdf
> 
> That is rather different than the BCM3000 (hardware might have been
> BCM200) which ran Win NT 4 with a dreadful java interface.
> It does look like the dreadful java interface survived the
> transition unfortunately.

And, the old WinNT-based BCM *also* was full of open-source software.
The web interface was Apache, and there was a VNC server running in
there as well.

(oh yeah, and many of the critical system scripts were DOS batch files,
but that's another story).


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Jim Van Meggelen
jim-3N9/NUsc0oNv0lssq1+4Ag at public.gmane.org


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