Zayo woes

Tue Sep 19 15:28:26 UTC 2023

On 9/19/23 16:48, Mike Hammett wrote:
> As someone that has been planning to be in the acquiring seat for a 
> while (but yet to do one), I've consistently passed to the money 
> people that there's the purchase price and then there's the % on top 
> of that for equipment, contractors, etc. to integrate, improve, 
> optimize future cashflow, etc. those acquisitions with the rest of 
> what we have.

I blame this on the success of how well we have built the Internet with 
whatever box and tool we have, as network engineers.

The money people assume that all routers are the same, all vendors are 
the same, all software is the same, and all features are easily 
deployable. And that all that is possible if you can simply do a better 
job finding the cheapest box compared to your competition.

In general, I don't fancy nuance when designing for the majority. But 
with acquisition and integration, nuance is critical, and nuance quickly 
shows that the acquisition was either underestimated, or not worth doing 
at all.

Mark.
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