Re: Reacting to previous messages

[Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

> cisco seems to think it has a monopoly on understanding what the
> market wants, and is almost alone in consistently opposing even
> talking about this.....(yes, juniper have also said they dont see a
> need ,but they hardly sample a significant or different share  of the
> user base).....

Cisco and Juniper do not come out with these thoughts in a vacuum.  As
customers, we have significant interaction with router vendors, some (as
DMM can testify) can last well into the AM.

We as customers do not come up with these thoughts in a vacuum as well,
but are given requirements from sales and product marketing and have to
engineer based on those constraints.  In the end, it is the paying
customer who drives this.

In any case, comments like "cisco seems to think it has a monopoly on
understanding what the market wants" are completely out of order and serve
no useful purpose.  Cisco is doing what their customers are requesting and
trying to imply that engineers are speaking for the company is incorrect.

/vijay



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