The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back
Patrick
patrick at stealthgeeks.net
Wed May 22 04:51:53 UTC 2002
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."
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Patrick Greenwell
Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers
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