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

pays@faugeres.inria.fr Tue, 31 August 1993 19:02 UTC

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

Is that really annoying? or just indicating that SoftSwitch is unable
to deliver X.500 today, which may delight their competitors?  :-)

-- PAP

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