From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T14:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Infranet Bindings

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:58:20 +0900, raymond capozzi
<rcapozzi@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Is anybody interested in Ruby bindings for Portal's Infranet? I
> have a working extension that converts a hash into an flist, runs
> an opcode, converts the return flist into a hash, and returns the
> hash. Ebufs throw errors that you can resuce. This is far better
> than Portal's pcmif for Perl, if for no other reason, than my
> extension does not leak like Portal's. Mind you this is really a
> Ruby replacement for Portal Perl. You cannot extend the FMs to
> include Ruby, although that does sound like an interesting idea.
> 
> For those in the dark about Infranet, congragulations. Infranet is
> a billing system for isps and telco and any business with a napkin
> business plan of 2MM subscribers in two years.

Huh. And here I thought that Portal had gone belly up, or at least
et up just like Solect was. (I was a designer on Horizon's actual
billing software, which was probably a better application than
Infranet, but without the cachet of an IPO behind it before Amdocs
got stupid and bought us and effectively killed us in favour of
their COBOL application.)

My question is -- what exactly does Infranet provide that can be
dealt with via scripting? Telcos aren't known for being progressive
that way.

-austin
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