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Unresolved Netserver Issues

  • Is there an existing product?
  • How to make money from Small Biz?
  • telephony
  • bandwidth
  • stronger firewall
  • faster units
  • NT servers
  • what other facilities
  • EFT-POS, Visa, CashDrawer, ???
  • Lucent, CISCO, Bay, Axis - Do they have patents etc on this?
  • Inferno/Plan 9 vs Java-NC/Linux
  • What to run Netserver Apps in? Java, native, slim Binary, inferno, ???
  • UserRight - Brad Cox : 128 bit key, 32hex + checksum
  • Strong Encryption + back-office
  • Processors & platforms
  • Objects vs Files/Applic & charging
  • Charging scheme - pre-paid, post, on-the-fly??? ALL?

  • SCSI expansion - esp for Business
  • Device Drivers -> Mach/Win 95/NT. Xlate?
  • Music, film, book publishers & Artists => Liquid Audio, Real Audio & TV, Lucent/Ken, H.324?
  • Backups -> Jazz, M-Optic, spare disk?, tape?, network?
  • database server -> Oracle/Ingres/Sybase/Informix/? ==> slice or Netserver process
  • Specs on Firewire IEE1394 --> Disks!
  • Patch panels for house?
  • Web interface, control, data
  • User Authenication ==> Terminals. Standard? Smart Card?
  • File Sys Interface ==> if firewire on disk, then what protocol???
  • Give Away Software
  • User right ?
  • activate thru web site
  • Upgrades
  • move Licences between machines & users.
  • accounts on netserver
  • users on Terminals
  • Vendor/merchant Config like Mobile Phones
  • how do vendors differentiate
  • What if MicroSoft comes in? What can they do?
  • Web page authoring
  • User maint, sys admin functions, command line?
  • CPU slice [NT, Linux, ...?]
  • Where do Oracle, Sun & Apple stand?
  • Drivers for Phone slice
  • need slice hardware
  • need 12V 4-wire telephone handset/intercomm
  • device drivers for netserver?? What lang? Loadable? Upgrades? [aka LME?]
  • RTP/RTCP - Spec & implementation

  • Detailed spec on whole demo, prototype, product..........
  • hardware
  • kernel
  • system
  • idents, encryption. Ident ROM, removable SIM
  • IP services
  • sys services
  • Web pages - admin, operation, management interfaces
  • Update, distribution mechanisms ==> Config mgt && Rollback
  • High Reliability O/S!! [& silent reboot]
  • What to do if lightening blows it up??? Lost everything
  • backups
  • SAMBA
  • printers, scanners
  • PC-CARD interfaces??? if not, what
  • hot pluggable devices, memory, ROM
  • slices - define
  • phone - H.324? Interop with Cisco & Lucent/AT&T
  • audio, turners, pre-amp, Video , VCR
  • alarms - burglar, siren, light, sensors, fire, other??
  • Music, Video storage???
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  • Merchant software
  • Licencee software/materials

    • Page Last Updated 07-Apr-98