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To: Bosco who wrote (3762)	11/11/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

Bosco, Some points: Microsoft "signed nothing". Nortel indicated that manufacturers using OIE on their platforms will be compatibile with NT4 and Win2000 - far from industry leading networking platforms. THere was no indication that Microsoft signed on to this.... Nortel is simply leveraging the known fact that BAY gave away OSPF to Microsoft years ago. Nortel has agreed to port OIE onto Intel's processors - probably their new networking processors. Will Intel be building products with this??? I don't think this was articulated in the releases. OIE is not free open source - you still have to pay Nortel royalies. We still don't know what OIE has in it. Does is support VPN with L2TP and Security with IPSEC? Does it support Qos mechanisms like RTP, RSVP, IP presedence, Diffserv? what about directory hooks such as LDAP? What about voice? What about streaming media? It's not enough to say that OIE will succeed because it is "open" (nothwithstanding the royalties). The question is is the software competitive.. and furthermore will it remain competitive once integrated into a platform - whatever that platform might look like. Finally, these "platforms" don't even exist yet. We're probably 1 year or more away before a manufacturer can even bring a OIE based platform to market. What new technologies will be added to routers and switches by that time that will place OIE even further behind in techology. AND, with that in mind how does NT - not traditionally a software house - provide developer support? Way way to many questions and not enough answers to claim that OIE is a threat to anyone. OG