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AT&T Migrating Phone Network to IP
prostoalex writes "Following the lead of Sprint and Telus, who are moving their telephone networks to IP, AT&T will spend $3 billion to migrate to an IP-based network. By the end of 2005 about 270 legacy systems will be retired." The article also notes how the current ratio of packet traffic to voice is already 8:1.
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered IIS community when IDC confirmed that IIS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than 24 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that IIS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IIS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict IIS' future. The hand writing is on the wall: IIS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IIS because IIS is dying. Things are looking very bad for IIS. As many of us are already aware, IIS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
IIS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IIS developers Bteve Stallmer and Gill Bates only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: IIS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO leader Darl McBride states that there are only 10156289 users of IIS. "The numbers are staggering, that's a change of -0.21 percent from last month," McBride saide in an interview Monday, "Don't worry Bill, we have your back covered. We'll be suing the Apache Software Foundation next month due to stolen code found in the base of Apache, that we wrote. We can't disclose that code as we don't want it removed."
All major surveys show that IIS has steadily declined in market share. IIS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If IIS is to survive at all it will be among web server dilettante dabblers. IIS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, IIS is dead.
Fact: IIS is dying
You say that, but do you realize I AM SALAMI SAM!!! YOU CAN CALL ME "SIM SIM SALA TROLL SAM!"
linux sux... you do too, BSD is dying, Stephen King dead at age 12 today..
IP networks migrate you.
I wonder if this means that all phone conversations will become the intellectual property of the phone company.
Eslambolchi did not discuss software or hardware programs or partners that would be involved in the network. However, on Tuesday Murray Hill, New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with AT&T to provide advanced optical technology for its network.
Can you say shocker? AT&T buying hardware from BELL LABS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLUCENT. Whodathunkit?
Next we'll here some crazy thing like Slashdot is doing advertising for a product at Thinkgeek.