Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make >> the picture clearer? >> > > Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in > the USA. They teach you to use Cisco, and only Cisco, for all your > networking needs. It's the only thing most IT people know about and the > only vendor they will 'trust' all the way to their grave. Not that I > agree with that. :) Juniper is a close second. > > IT people usually have very lax budgets (at least the one's I've known) > and can afford to blow $5k-$10k on a single router for a small > department. The most coveted excuse for using Cisco over anything else > is their [Cisco's] "instant" turn around to customer support problems. > They [IT] could care less about Linux because they know nothing about it. > Trust me, response time and lack of hardware problems are worth a lot of $$ at most ISPs, and the larger the ISP the more important. Remember that staff are paid, and someone looking at a router issue is not doing something else. fact of life, when you get larger than "mom and pop" ISP operations Cisco or similar is cheaper than Linux. When I worked for SBC downtime was measured in sec/yr, or at least reported to us in that unit. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
