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RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back
From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris () bblabs com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:54:33 -0700
Good point! The other one is "Choose your battles wisely." -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:52 PM To: Christopher J. Wolff Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back On Tue, 21 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
So, regardless of whether the hardware is the fastest thing on the block, pushing 10 nanobits at a megaflop, you can look like a fool if you don't consider the business repercussions of the vendor you choose. In the end, I didn't get my design approved until I chose Cisco. Was I pissed, sure! Did I ship off white papers and other propaganda to support my case? Yes! But the company went bankrupt about 2 weeks after I submitted the bid.
"No one gets fired for buying IBM." /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/
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