Re: Specific Questions

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael,

  Your response is equally silly.  Many packages run on multipul
platforms and utilize multipul sound cards (PC related).  Our 
API interface is in Java and will interface with most of the current
WebPhone interfaces.  You are showing your ignorance in telephony
and Internet technology as it stands today.

Regards,


Michael Dillon wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Thom Stark wrote:
> 
> > Why in the name of pity aren't you folks using Internet telephony,
> > instead of the traditional POTS network?
> 
> This is just a plain silly question. There are several incompatible
> Internet telephony programs that only support certain types of hardware
> and/or operating system. I wouldn't be surprised to find that one IACH
> member has a Win3.11 system, another has a Mac, another has OS/2,
> another has SunOS/SPARC, another has DOS/V.
> 
> > There are so many incredible software-based conferencing tools available
> > at minimal costs today that it's extremely hard to understand why you'd
> > even want to use POTS.  Heck, Netscape's telephony app is free to non-
> > profit users, as is PGPfone.
> 
> POTS is reliable. Everybody already has POTS. Nothing else meets those two
> criteria.
> 
> > "Captain, I am attempting to construct a tricorder, using the equivalent
> > of flint knives and bear skins."  --Mr. Spock to Captain Kirk in 'The
> > City on the Edge of Forever'
> 
> I think Spock was referring to your Internet telephony suggestion here.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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