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To: Kashish King who wrote (9241)	3/3/1998 3:05:00 AM
From: David R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

No ROd. I am a senior design architect for a major provider of CT servers. I have met with engineers and executives from many of the major switch makers, and industry analysts. Nobody is talking Java. NT is the platform of choice, and most everybody is porting to NT. We are in the business of Enterprise telephony. Scalability is the key. I could care less about a hand-held device, or some desk-top phone that IBM wrote. I have to design systems that 96 simultaneous calls on a single box can be processed (voice, and heavy DSP (TTS and SR), that can guarantee that a user will not experience excess latency (as little as 1-2 seconds). To make things worse, CT HW is a bit behind PC's. Every new board has to get major approvals. Currently, P200's and PP200's are the main stay. We must have fast fast fast SW. Java just ain't. No matter how you slice it. Single users of IBM's Java apps are complaining about speed, when you have just one user on reasonably beefy PC's. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that if Java can not satisfy 1 GUI user, it is not ready to scale to real world CT.