Begin forwarded message: From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: December 4, 2005 1:17:24 PM EST To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [IP] A return to the Intelligent Network On Dec 4, 2005, at 09:30 , Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
You'd think that Cisco, of all companies, would understand that there's far more money to be made by (almost) everyone with the "dumb network" model. They made all their money at the expense of the "intelligent networks" folks and now they themselves seem intent on repeating the downsides of the POTS approach (worse, without POTS's advantages)I guess we're revisiting the bad old days of IBM, where 'nobody ever got fired for specifying IBM', even when there were better technical solutions on the market.
I do think that's not the case here. One of the parts of the article that I elided was a note that cisco's mkt share was sliding from 85% to around 50%, and they are looking for ways to reëstablish dominance.
But this is an unfortunate approach to take. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/