[31734] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anyone heard anything Good or Bad about Juniper equipment ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 13 19:03:59 2000
Date: 13 Oct 2000 15:59:50 -0700
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To: brett.hawn@rcn.com
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Fri, 13 October 2000, "Brett L. Hawn" wrote:
> Until of course they grow as large as the other big name competitor, then
> we'll see how well their service model scales.
>
> I like Juniper as much as the next person, this doesn't however, make me
> naieve enough to believe that they're going to be able to leap the customer
> support and technical support hurdles that all the other large companies
> have hit.
They probably won't. But by that time, everyone hopes there will be a
new up-and-coming competitor. The founders will probably be ex-employees
who got feed up with the bigness, and started the next company.
IBM -> Digital -> Compaq -> Dell -> ????
There are already several companies nipping at Juniper's heels. This is
a good thing.
When companies start focusing on strategic architectures, alliances, and
certifying; they stop innovating.
