A nice blog on why to use OSS

[JD Austin]

I just did a big Asterisk based phone system for an Army base in Louisiana.
If the company that brought me in hadn't had tremendous pull and the
deadline so short it wouldn't have gotten in at all.
What we built was total overkill for what they're using it for..it was a
high availability cluster, 400+ available extensions of which about 50 are
currently used and 320 turned on, punched down to T1 channel banks with FXO
ports that eventually are terminated miles away, and integrated with a
private cell phone network.  The PBX system was CentOS 5.2 based and even
though Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.2 is an accepted platform (they're
virtually the same thing) they about came unglued because it wasn't on the
accepted list.

There is no reason that CentOS couldn't be on their accepted OS list except
that the 'manufacturer' pays for the very expensive certification process
which unless a bunch of interested users chip in will never happen with
CentOS.  Redhat is the only linux distro on that list as far as I know.  I'm
already planning on a system based on RHEL instead in the event that they
want other phone systems - even if I never get an order for one.

JD
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com>wrote:

> I found a great little blog entry from the president of Sun Fedral (not
> sure what the company does, but seems to be geared towards government
> stuff).
> The article is broken up into 6 parts and starts out with security.
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/the_no_1_reason_to
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/the_no_2_reason
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/the_no_3_reason_to
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/the_no_4_reason_to
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/reason_no_5_to_move
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/reason_no_6_to_move
>
>
> or the original page
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/
>
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