[86481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Mon Nov 7 11:26:28 2005
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A01444D2B@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Cc: "Simon Waters" <simonw@zynet.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:23:05 -0500
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>
>
>> On Monday 07 Nov 2005 3:42 pm, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>>>
>>> It's an argument for vendor diversity.
>>
>> No it is an argument for code base diversity (or better
>> software engineering).
>>
>> Vendor diversity doesn't necessarily give you this, and you
>> can get this with
>> one vendor.
>
> How so? Haven't we recently seen an across the board bug in
> multiple version of $vendor code?
And that's evidence of what other than nobody is willing to pay for
what it takes to get better code out of $vendor?
Code can be built better. It just isn't always economical to do so.
