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> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > Frankly, this could be a *good* thing for the industry. Among other things > > large organizations have a habit and history of being unable to perceive > > and act on market-based changes quickly enough to capitalize on them. > > > > They tend to act like 900lb Gorillas instead, which is great if you're into > > slow, plodding things, and not so good if you aren't fast enough to get > > stepped on. But eventually, stepping on people draws the fire of people > > on the DOJ side of the fence. > > I agree, I think this is a good thing for many NSPs. It is going to be a > HUGE job to combine UUNET, ANS, and Internet MCI. They have huge hardware > differences. ANS with the new BAY BCN hardware that they spent a large > time developing, MCI with their large Stratacom network, and UUNet with > their new Fore network. They all connect customers in a different way, it > will take some time to bring all of that together. There will be major > outages and problems associated with this merger. It will be a big change > for other backbone providers to come in a take some of their customers > base. It also will be easier to watch 1 big gorilla then 3 smaller ones. > > -Nathan Pessimist Nathan? I seems to me that it would be out of character for Worldcom to integrate MCI. They didn't with MFS, ANS or UUNet. Different market targets? -Steve.
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