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To: James Yegerlehner who wrote (9719)	4/2/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: David R	Respond to of 10836

Thanks for the article. We of course have to be API agnostic. As today's PBX's are mixed TAPI, TSAPI, CT-Connect and a host of proprietary call control API's. We will support JTAPI if market demands it. Bottom line, there are billions of dollars of deployed PBX's. In order to sell to the market, we have to support the API offered by the PBX, be it TAPI, TSAPI, CT-Connect, MITAI, OAI, etc. As of today, we have not seen one RFP that required JTAPI. But, most do require TAPI. I try to avoid the "which is better" wars. The real issue is what is the customer screaming for. We sell product from the low-end CPE, throug the enterprise, and even to service providers (baby bells, etc.). We deal with many of the PBX vendors. My point is what I see happening in the market. TAPI has the momentum. JTAPI does not. Like it or not, facts is facts.

To: James Yegerlehner who wrote (9719)	4/2/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Good JTAPI article. I don't see TAPI amounting to a hill of beans but I understand how those who see everything through a Microsoft prism can get swept up in these bogus notions. I don't think people really appreciate the difference between a Sun Microsystems computer and a dumb-ass business appliance like Window's NT. NT has an experimental cluster (gag) of two computers, golly. Even the little things like the ability to hot-swap boards aren't there in NT. Microsoft is not going to topple JTAPI anymore than Visual Basic is going to keep Java from dominating application development.