[44537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Followup British Telecom outage reason
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Nov 30 17:31:13 2001
In-Reply-To: <06da01c179b0$8e9a81e0$2900a8c0@interhouse.redbus.com> from Peter Galbavy at "Nov 30, 2001 03:06:09 pm"
To: peter.galbavy@knowtion.net (Peter Galbavy)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:29:09 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alex@alex.org.uk (Alex Bligh), vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie),
nanog@merit.edu
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From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
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> I have not seen anyone note that all major vendors are usually focused on
> revenue from new sales and that maintenance income is seen as a bonus. While
> new sales are driven by being able to compete with the next vendor, new
> features will always be prioritised over stability.
Actually I think in recent history the opposite is true. Anyone remember
the 11.2 and 11.3 [and non 11.1CC] days? Cisco had huge issues
with IOS stability, and its was around about this time that juniper
and a few less successful others appeared. Cisco changed something
and things got significantly better - I'd look at that as revenue
loss prevention :-).
Regards,
Neil.
