Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)

Peter Galbavy peter at wonderland.org
Tue Oct 15 20:54:11 UTC 1996


> >    since as Dave
> >    O'Leary has told me for a long time "Sooner or later everyone ends
> >    up working for cisco" and he seems to be right.
> 
>   Or maybe, everyone stops at cisco sometime in their career.
> 
>   Although, I know lots of smart smart smart people who haven't.
>   One of them is looking for a job, and he's not looking at cisco.
>   (not me...)

And since we have *never* had a Cisco in our own network, as the
largest dialup IP provider in the UK if not Europe (as a single
company), we have gone from not seeing the need to not seeing the
point or buying and Cisco gear. It's like IBM was in the 60s/70s.
"No one ever got fired for buying Cisco." Sheesh.


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