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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: cgi@crl.com (Paul Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Q: Your inputs on IMBEDDED+X25 OSI project Date: 15 Nov 1993 05:52:53 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest] Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2c81jl$j1n@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com Keywords: X.25 / OSI needed X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Questions to the 386bsd news group: 1) I'm considering 386bsd VS UnixWare SVR4.2 for a high volume almost imbedded application. Volume will be 200 to 1000 units. So there's a $250000 bias toward a free OS. But cost of development and cost of ownership/support isn't considered. Application is pure data com, X.25, OSI, FTAM and a device driver to be developed to a 3rd party ISA bus board, that does DMA and looks almost like a disk controller. Would you recommend for or against NETBSD based on system reliability? 2) If NETBSD is not shot down, I'll need either commercial or freeware support for X.25, OSI and FTAM? Any input. Lack of source or purchasable product could still kill the NETBSD idea. 3) How will Univels' law suite against *BSD* affect a commercial deployment of NETBSD in terms of defered licence fees due?. 200++ systems in the field makes this issue a serious impediment. Would you view the risk for a commercial deployment TOOO great at this time?? 4) Who sources clean CDROM installations for NETBSD?? This is a commercial environment where time is money. Delivery of prototype systems would be in Q2 '94, so there's some time to do porting of the ISODE protocol stack. Any other input on X.25 and OSI?? Thanks. *************************************************************************** Curt Smith, Computer Generation, Atlanta GA, 404-707-2854 ***************************************************************************