[streaming] Re: video on demand

[Graham Leggett]

Paul Rae wrote:

> As much as we would like to see it, I don't see many IP/TV operators
> picking up on it.
> 
> When you have customers paying you cannot and will not accept the server
> to be flakey in anyway. And to be honest they arent that expenisve -
> anyone seriously intrested in deploying a commerical vod server will
> have the cash for one.

The trouble with commercial solutions is that they are in my experience 
virtually always flaky, usually significantly worse than open source 
alternatives. I have been burned enough times with software (both 
commercial and open source) to know that there is no way I am going to 
part with money for a software package until I see it run on my hardware 
under load reliably, because I know that the minute the vendor has my 
money, I am on my own.

:(

Regards,
Graham
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