Soft-Switch and X.500--Zisman Quoted

Skip Slone <jpslone@tag.den.mmc.com> Tue, 31 August 1993 18:58 UTC

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Subject: Soft-Switch and X.500--Zisman Quoted

Does anyone besides me find this kind of press a bit annoying?

> 
> Mike Zisman, President of Soft-Switch, Inc., was interviewed in the August 
> 30th issue of Communications Week, page 19:
> 
> Comm Week:  Why don't you support the X.500 directory services standard?
> 
> Zisman:     Directory synchronization is a first step toward the migration
>             to X.500.  We are clearly committed to X.500 in the EMX switch.
>             If we delivered X.500 today, none of our customers could use it
>             because there's nothing else out there that uses X.500.
>