[48047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Wed May 22 00:52:37 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
> So, regardless of whether the hardware is the fastest thing on the
> block, pushing 10 nanobits at a megaflop, you can look like a fool if
> you don't consider the business repercussions of the vendor you choose.
> In the end, I didn't get my design approved until I chose Cisco. Was I
> pissed, sure! Did I ship off white papers and other propaganda to
> support my case? Yes! But the company went bankrupt about 2 weeks after
> I submitted the bid.
"No one gets fired for buying IBM."
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Patrick Greenwell
Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers
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