[6030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco for dummies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Vallee)
Fri Nov 8 15:56:54 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:51:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Vallee <mike@vaultline.net>
To: deepak@jain.com, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: mike@ns.vaultline.net
This is actually a very good idea. Someone should talk to Tim O'Rielly at
ORA.COM about this. They are the "Nutshell Book" folks, and do a great job
on other books in this area.
We need to recommend an author. Any volunteers?
Mike Vallee Vaultline Inc. mike@vaultline.net
408 364 9056
>
> (Assuming this hasn't already been done and I am the one that is uninformed)
>
> Has anyone though of how much money some publisher could make with a
> Cisco for Dummies<tm> book? Say it runs $49.95 and is 2000 pages. It has
> every obscure use of every command in say the IP IOS or Netflow Switching
> or everything Cisco makes [depending on size here] It strikes me that
> the UniversCD and the bound/hard copy manuals [including the ones from
> the classes] are not all that useful unless you remember the approximate
> syntax of the command or that it has been expanded in the next version of
> IOS.
>
> Lots of companies make books solely elaborating on the references
> provided by the manufacturer [ala Osborne on Borland and such].
>
> It boggles my mind to figure how many they would probably sell [one for
> every customer router?]
>
> Then again, I guess Cisco would sell it at they standard rates. $1095 for
> the 3 volume set on CD.
>
> WARNING: There is some sarcasm in this message.
>
> -Deepak.
>
