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IP: Incompatibility shuts down Xerox corporate network: [risks] Risks Digest 21.37
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:21:11 -0400
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:02:12 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe () math utah edu> Subject: Incompatibility shuts down Xerox corporate network *Computerworld* (16-Apr-2001, p. 6 and 78) has two articles on how an incompatibility between a beta release of Microsoft Windows XP and Cisco 5000 routers shut Xerox's corporate network down several times. According to the page-long column on p. 78, ``It got so bad that Xerox warned all 50,000 of its U.S. employees not to installed XP betas without permission or they'd face disciplinary action.''. Nelson H. F. Beebe, Center for Scientific Computing, University of Utah Department of Mathematics, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 +1 801 581 5254
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