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- From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Apologies to Cisco
- Message-ID: <telecom12.863.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:30:04 GMT
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- Organization: CMC Network Systems (Rockwell DCD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 863, Message 6 of 10
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- In article <telecom12.861.7@eecs.nwu.edu> I wrote:
-
- > It is indeed Cisco these days. Cisco is the flagship of the industry,
- > enjoying the kind of name recognition that IBM used to have in
- > corporate computing. They are also enormously profitable, and have
- > adopted IBM attitudes. They don't participate in comparative
- > evaluations by magazines, and they don't participate in industry
- > interoperability test labs any more. I don't like that attitude.
-
- My basis for this was a recent comparative evaluation of router remote
- manageability by SNMP, I believe it was in {Data Communications}
- magazine; it came out during InterOp week. The article stated that
- despite repeated requests, Cisco had declined to participate.
- Unfortunately, I have purged my magazine shelf. Certainly, Cisco chose
- not to participate with 15 vendors in the PPP interoperability
- demonstration of routers at InterOp.
-
- On the other hand, Cisco did in fact show up for the PPP
- Interoperability Consortium's test lab the week before InterOp to
- check out the new (not yet released, I believe) PPP option for their
- new terminal server (CS-500 ?).
-
- In other words, my statement was overly broad, and I apologize.
-
- Every vendor must balance the benefit of what can be learned from test
- labs against the expense, and also must balance the benefit of a good
- review against the risk of losing credibility through a possibly
- ill-informed negative review. When you are in a leadership position,
- the risk can be significant.
-
-
- Lars Poulsen - eating crow at Rockwell ...
- Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer Internet E-mail: lars@CMC.COM
- CMC Network Products / Rockwell Int'l Telephone: +1-805-968-4262
- Santa Barbara, CA 93117-3083 TeleFAX: +1-805-968-8256
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I've received another comment on this subject as
- well, and it is included next. PAT]
-