Re: [TCLUG:11551] Hardware Question

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> As another data point, I work for a company that, among other things, sells
> voice mail services to schools, which are primarily used to allow parents to
> call in and check on what Johnny's homework assignments are and the lunch
> menu.  We've recently started organizing machines as clusters of 4 boxen.  A
> group of 4 P200s is estimated to be sufficient to handle 5000 schools,
> including voice mail, email, text-to-speech, line handling, fax receipt and
> conversion to TIFFs, and making it all available over either a phone or the
> web.  I figure your P2/450 probably performs like at least 3 P200s.  Unless
> this is for a high-profile online business, you're not going to need more
> than you've got.

Are you using Linux boxen for these voicemail servers?

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