UnitedLinux Pushes Into Telecom Market

An anonymous reader writes "It would seem that UnitedLinux is pushing into the telecomms market according to this article at ITWorld. Is this the first market they are trying to meander into? I perticularly like this quote: 'Telecommunications grade servers must meet specific standards regarding electromagnetic interference, electrostatic discharge, corrosion, grounding and seismic durability.' Hmmmm."

Comments

Wha?

[MoThugz]

I know that Linux has better stability, eager support community, consistent development, excellent growth potential among others.

I fail to see what the hell has Linux got to do with tolerance of interference, electrostatic discharge, corrosion, grounding and seismic durability... Last I check those features weren't built into the kernel.

That has more to do with how and where you put the servers than what OS those servers where running.

Odd choice of market

[kruetz]

For UnitedLinux to choose such a market is definitely unusual, but is it really related to UnitedLinux being what it is, or is it a group seeing a potentially large market for their product?

I mean, I think that UnitedLinux may have chosen this route not because it's the sort of thing they're aiming for in particular, but that they believe it's a market where Linux may be one of the best available solutions. If this is the case, however, shouldn't they perhaps be aiming to establish themselves in a "core" market first, before aiming at something like this?

Then again, perhaps they have a bit of time and effort to burn, and if they do succeed then things may work out very well for UnitedLinux in other areas.

OR, OTOH perhaps this is one of the markets they've had in mind for a while and just haven't made that information public before. If they'd let everyone know ages ago that this was what they were looking at, then some other vendor may have beat them to it. (Just a suggestion - I don't think this is actually the case)

Re:Interesting Choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Not much of a telecom market? You've been reading too much stock market hype.

Basic telco service (phones, DSL, data switching) is growing at a steady rate. It just isn't growing at the artificial, bullshit rate that people *though* it was during the 90s.

Carriers are trying to save money. Equipment still needs to be purchased and servers need replaced/upgraded. Most telco stuff is either Sun w/Solaris or HP w/HP-UX. However, I have also seen rooms of racked Dell's running Red Hat 7.1 at Verizon and similar setups at AllTel, Bell South and Qwest.

Take a look at the price of a Sun E3500, E4500 or SunFire 6500 and you'll see why the telcos are a prime market for Lintel.