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To: optical-editor who wrote (1410)	4/13/2000 10:45:00 PM
From: hueyone	Respond to of 1956

SNIP of REDBACK COUNTER: Larry Blair, VP of marketing for Redback: It doesn't matter if it's based on a Commodore 64. We've got over 1800 of these puppies out there, and that's what matters. Blair argues that the hardware used to develop a subscriber management system is of far less consequence than the software that it's running. He may have a point. Simply, hardware dictates how fast a product will run, but software dictates how smart it is, and how many value-added functions such as service provisioning capabilities it can support. Redback has a big lead over its competitors in software. Anyone have any comments on this "software versus hardware" debate?