Re: VoIP on iSeries

Defense= 1 server that rarely needs IPL or a commodity PC..............ane
yet another dedicated to one thing server..........

On 10/11/06, Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/11/06, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Only Power 5 at V5R3M0 and V5R4M0.  Sat in
> > on the presentation yesterday.
>
> Be prepared to defend the cost/benefit of iSeries hardware and
> maintenance vs commodity PC hardware running Asterisk.  Especially
> considering that Asterisk is open source and very configurable.
> http://www.asterisk.org
> The IBM web site is
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/iptelephony/
> The 3Com web site is http://www.3com.com/index_jump/ibm_iptel.html


That is just as true for everything else we do .. there are open source
options for ...

Database .. MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/) and PostGRE (
http://www.postgresql.org/)
ERP .. Compiere (http://www.compiere.org/) and ERP5 (
http://www.compiere.org/)
CRM .. SugarCRM (http://www.sugarcrm.com/) and Daffodil (
http://www.daffodildb.com/crm/)
Email .. HMail (http://www.hmailserver.com/) and Zimbra (
http://www.zimbra.com/) and MANY OTHERS
File & Print .. Samba (http://us4.samba.org/samba/)

and many, many other things.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx
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