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.