Thanks for the thread on this. We're certainly aware of the platform
concerns with Platypus and have heard about it from prospects. As you
know, Tucows acquired Platypus with the Boardtown purchase and our
primary concerns this year were to make sure the existing customers
continued to receive upgrades and to integrate Platypus with OpenSRS
(coming soon). Now we're looking forward at expanded features (for web
hosters, for example) as well as at platform independence. What would
you think of a Tucows hosted solution to address that or is it critical
for you to host your own client/server app?
cheers
Lee Garrison
vp, product management
Tucows Inc.
www.tucowsinc.com
416.538.5441 direct
416.535.0123 main
On 15-Dec-04, at 12:45 PM, Gordon Hudson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher X. Candreva"
> <chris@westnet.com>
> To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Cleint Code and Billing functionality
>
>
>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, James Ussher-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Why wouldn't you trust your business data in one of the most popular
>>> database engines in the world? Personally I'd be very happy to store
>>> my
>>
>> For the same reason I don't trust my data to Windows, one of the most
>> popular OS's in the world, or Outlook, the most popular e-mail client
>> in the
>> world.
>>
>> But to make it a not-so-religous arguement -- for a Unix-only shop it
>> means
>> setting up a Windows server.
>
>
> I think thats part of the issue.
> We do provide windows hosting and SQL server for customrs but my
> experience of it has not been good.
> Approx 6 to 10 times more work involved to keep it running securely
> and stable-y.
> I can factor that into what I charge customers, but if its for our own
> use then thats just time and money lost.
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon Hudson
> Hostroute.com Ltd
> www.hostroute.net
>
>
>
>
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