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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:53:21PM -0500, Brent Sweeny wrote: > I remember way back then, when we were evaluating whether to buy Proteon > or Cisco, scanning the hosts table (which still listed all the routers > in the internet then, along with what KIND they were) to see what Cisco's > market penetration was. it was growing fast enough that we thought they > might stay in business. ;) it's still a good idea for cisco to remember > proteon (and what they did wrong), though virtually no one from cisco today > has ever heard of proteon, too bad--the lessons are still relevant, perhaps > more than ever. Umm, when Cisco bought IBM's router division, didn't they take on the support contracts for those routers? The IBM 2210 had a lot of Proteon history... -- John Payne http://www.sackheads.org/jpayne/ [email protected] http://www.sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 To send me mail, use the address in the From: header
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