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

["Bor, Alexis" <[e-mail]>]

Gee Whiz!
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to annoying things that I 
have heard from them lately.  At EMA in Atlanta, there were a lot of subtle 
'soft-sell' things said that worked to a punch line of being very 
anti-X.500, even ignoring that Paradise is working well, for example.  And 
to top it off, they presented at the EMA/XAPIA Directory Synchronization 
meeting that week where I don't believe they had much support for their 
direction except from consultants who make a lot of money from Softswitch 
product consulting.

I was really fuming after that week...

Of course the opinions are my own,

Alexis Bor

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From: Skip Slone
To: dssig; osi-ds; osi-ds
Subject: Soft-Switch and X.500--Zisman Quoted
Date: Tue, Aug 31, 1993 12:19PM

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.
>