[128127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sun Jul 25 02:58:01 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:56:53 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <310B8CAA-FB09-48E1-B544-F5D010551BF0@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
David Conrad wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
>> Indeed, best not listen to vendors
>
> As it is best not to listen to doctors that tell you if you continue chain smoking or eating 5000 calories a day, you'll likely regret it.
>
Bad analogy. A doctor tells you these things for your well being. In
fact, the doctor's advice, while meeting the goals of his oath, conflict
with his business needs (your regret of not following his advice will be
lots more doctor bills).
Vendors care about their bottom line. Some will happily lie for a sale.
Most will highlight their strong points and gloss over their weaknesses.
More care goes to those who pay the most.
An engineer is closer to a doctor. The engineer cares about the health
of their network and how well it performs, even if it means begging for
more expensive gear from management. The engineer is less concerned with
the bottom line and more concerned with doing things right (especially
if it means less work, less headaches, and less problems for the same
amount of pay).
I rant OT too much. :)
Jack
