IP: Incompatibility shuts down Xerox corporate network: [risks] Risks Digest 21.37

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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