From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 15:43:06 GMT-3
At 12:25 PM -0600 10/1/03, David Hickman wrote:
>I raised this same question to the two CallManager Tech @ TAC that where
>recently helping me with a bug in one of my CallManagers after an
>upgrade and both of them told me alternate operating systems are already
>in the works. They also told me that the majority of the calls they get
>are related to Windows bugs and patches that are wreaking havoc on
>CallManagers.
>
>If you need an example of Cisco's direction look at Unity Express, which
>is still a new product and not quite full featured yet, but it runs on a
>hardened version of Linux.
>
>I would not take the techs as an official announcement, but I would bet
>they really are looking at it very seriously.
One motivation for Cisco to produce a non-Windows version of IP
telephony products is continued growth in the service provider
market, especially telcos that are starting to offer VoIP. I know of
several major carriers that automatically reject any critical
applications that run on Windows.
In this product space, things aren't always UNIX -- you'll find some
of them on real-time operating systems such as VXworks.
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