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Subject: Re: USR Total Control
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> We were as close as signing a lease agreement to buy four of these, and
> then USR's "devel team" told the salesperson they would have to charge
> $7000 to compile their special Radius to run on FBSD, and they still
> weren't sure if it could be set up with a menu so users could select ppp
> or an rlogin into our shell machine.  It dragged on for 4 months with no
> resolution, so we dropped it.  I even offered access to a machine here for
> them to use for development and mentioned that lots of ISPs use FBSD,
> Linux, etc.  They only support Solaris and NT (blech).

You could build a killer Windows/NT box for $7,000...

	-- Rob
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