[144605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ouch..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Thu Sep 15 09:33:16 2011
In-Reply-To: <7098B053-6896-4D8A-8715-1FDE0802327C@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:32:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Jima" <nanog@jima.tk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Jason Leschnik wrote:
>> If this is really from Cisco, it must put a smile on the face of
>> Juniper to know their competitor of 10x the revenue is watching their
>> moves so closely... Typically in the Mac vs. PC adds you see the non
>> established player (apple) making pokes at the established.
>
> OTOH, you do see Micr0$0ft doing everything they can to imitate Apple.
>
> I was at Valley Fair mall the other day. Micr0$0ft is apparently building
> a
> new store directly across from the Apple store there.
It's funny; they did the exact same thing at Mall of America maybe a year
ago. I guess your report confirms it was a strategy, rather than a
really absurd coincidence.
Jima
