[5364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Wed Oct 16 12:16:00 1996
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
To: jon@worf.netins.net (Jon Green)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 06:30:14 +0100 (BST)
Cc: peter@wonderland.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610161133.GAA19327@worf.netins.net> from "Jon Green" at Oct 16, 96 06:33:42 am
> The salespeople in the UK are using that tactic too? If a sales rep
> EVER walked into my office and fed me a line like that, I would end the
> meeting right there. As it is, I refuse to do business with Cisco not
> because of their products, but because of their marketing department
> and their corporate attitude of "We're the best, nobody can touch us,
> and if you want to buy our product you better bend over backwards to do
> what we want you to do." That was their attitude three years ago when
> our company was just getting started, and I haven't noticed it change
> much today.
No. I think the phrase *actually* used at a meeting (I was elsewhere
that day) was "It is a priveledge to deal with a market leader like
Cisco." This was the Cisco sales rep, not us. sigh.
Buy! Buy! Bye Bye. :-P
Regards,
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