[48068] 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 (Marc Pierrat)
Wed May 22 11:38:27 2002
From: "Marc Pierrat" <marc@sunchar.com>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:40:05 -0400
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> How long has this company been in business?
> Are they using open standards?
> Do they have knowledgeable tech support?
> ..and so on. =20
Good startups make great partners, and a great partner will have crisp =
and compelling answers to these questions that CFO-types like, even =
before you start to ask them. Even so: you might not have needed such =
performance anyway, since your situation might have been =
risk_of_brand_name < risk_of_better_performance. (There's always a risk =
to choosing the "safe" alternative, but established vendors go through =
great lengths to make sure you don't see them.)
This topic brings to mind a phrase I once read:
"Truth and Technology will Triumph over Bullshit and Bureaucracy."
-- PanAmSat's slogan(mantra?) as a startup, often accompanied by an =
image of Spot, dutifully lifting his leg to the competition (other =
interpretations abound)
