The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back

Wed May 22 04:54:33 UTC 2002

Good point!  The other one is "Choose your battles wisely."

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From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:52 PM
To: Christopher J. Wolff
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be
coming back

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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