Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On Oct 31, 2010, at 19:25, bas <kilobit () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Paul WALL <pauldotwall () gmail com> wrote:
> > I don't know what the big deal is.  I've rolled at least 20 of these
> > switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the
> > Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much.
> > Most of the money I dropped was on converting my stations from token
> > ring to ethernet.
>
> All of the people that responded to this thread are not complaining
> about the hardware.
> They are complaining about Guillaume's spam strategy.
>
> Other than that are you comparing apples to apples when you compare
> Nortel ATM switches (with EOL somewhere in 2004) with new ethernet
> hardware?

DJ Paul Wall only recently upgraded from FDDI...

> Bas