Well, Godzilla can pick up and toss around most ISDN switch types.
> - The PM-3 is rated for use in North America; Godzilla is not.
can't argue with that.
> - The PM-3 is rack-mountable. Godzilla probably won't fit in your
> office building, let alone in the machine room.
If we removed all the hot air and loose brain matter from Godzilla, we
may be able to stick him in the machine room, but the extra heat and
the fact that the total processing speed would be similar to my IBM PC
8088, it kinda blows that idea out of the water.
> - The PM-3 does not emit dangerous radioactivity. To be fair about
> it, the PM-3 also can't defend you against the evil invaders from
> Planet X, unless, of course, they're trying to attack your network
via
> your ISDN lines, in which case RADIUS and ChoiceNet will present them
> with quite a challenge. Godzilla doesn't have much in the way of
> authentication, provides no accounting, and doesn't do any packet
> filtering at all.
He's good for taking care of those users who don't pay and like to stay
online 24x7 and then whine profusly when they get a busy signal.
> - The PM-3 has upgradeable RAM and a full megabyte of FLASH.
Godzilla
> is lucky if he can remember about his atomic fire breath. (To be
> fair, the PM-3 has no ranged attacks.)
Well, Godzilla may be able to remember more than 100 people before
needing to use an outside source for info.
> - Godzilla's operating system has serious code bloat, despite the
fact
> that it has relatively few features (fewer, in fact, than ComOS).
some serious command-line options that Godzilla has are missing in
ComOS, like the atomic firebreath ping -f.
> - For the sake of fairness, I should point out that Godzilla is
> considerably more durable than a PM-3, and has a much longer MTBF.
He
> also doesn't mind being immersed in water, which would probably mess
> up a PM-3 pretty good.
but everyone told me Livingston's lasted forever.
> - The PM-3 comes with lifetime free technical support and software
> updates. Supporting Godzilla will cost you, at a rough estimate,
> around 45 billion dollars a year, and the toll in human lives may
well
> be incalculable.
Sounds pretty good to me. Especially for those more irratating
customers.
> - The PM-3 will support RIP and OSPF routing; Godzilla runs only the
> extremely primitive DTT (Direct-To-Tokyo) routing protocol.
Well, at least Godzilla supports the DTT routing protocol today.
> - Both products have powerful enemies, but Godzilla's are far more
> likely to destroy your offices trying to get him.
Hmm, but if you use the the other solutions, you won't need to bother
to have an office. :)
> - The PM-3 is a benevolent implementation of technology intended to
> serve the present and future needs of an increasingly networked human
> race. Godzilla is Nature's revenge for meddling with things we do
not
> understand.
Hmm... I don't understand people, or the internet in its entirety
yet.... :-)
This was quite amusing... it hit my reader as I was writing an email to
my girlfriend to see if she was interested in going camping next
weekend, or just hanging around the house. Higher stress email than
usual :-)
JS