[48048] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher J. Wolff)
Wed May 22 00:55:20 2002
From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
To: "'Patrick'" <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:54:33 -0700
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Good point! The other one is "Choose your battles wisely."
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:52 PM
To: Christopher J. Wolff
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Subject: Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be
coming back
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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