[rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't thatspecial. )

[Michael Schiller]

"Fogg, James" wrote:
> 
> I like Cisco, but only for infrastructure stuff. Cisco (or any other router
> manufacturer) wouldn't be my first choice for a network card. What they are
> really saying here is "we shouldn't have entered that business and now want
> out of it". Most big companies will do this to a dead product line. Cisco
> offers excellent support for their primary product lines.

A much better way of saying that would be "We don't support that
anymore, so all the drivers we have for it are up on our ftp/web site."
> 
> James Fogg, Network Engineer
> Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
> (603) 442-1751
> 
> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: George Adkins [mailto:george at webbastard.org]
> ~ Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:53 PM
> ~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> ~ Subject: [rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that
> ~ special.)
> ~
> ~
> ~ > Recently aquired two cisco wa-C301T S-Bus FDDI interfaces.
> ~ >
> ~ > Cisco, however, in their infinitessimal wisdom, wants me to
> ~ buy a service
> ~ > contract on two 10 year old NIC's before they will *Allow*
> ~ me to download
> ~ > the Solaris drivers.
> ~ >
> ~ I talk to the Service Contract 'People', and I find out that
> ~ they won't sell
> ~ me a service contract for the parts, since they are not
> ~ installed in Cisco
> ~ Equipment...
> ~
> ~ you can't have the driver without a service contract...
> ~ you can't have a service contract, even if you wanted to pay for it...
> ~ you can't have the driver (Besides, we're going to EOL it in
> ~ Jan of 2003!)
> ~
> ~ FSCKing Cisco...  and to think I was going to buy Cisco
> ~ routers to connect
> ~ the California and Florida remote offices when their
> ~ connectivity comes up
> ~ online.
> ~
> ~ Who else makes decent routers?
> ~
> ~ George
> ~ _______________________________________________
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> ~
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-- 
-Mike
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