interesting question, and here is one possible answer: Cisco is likely to buy a competitor, making the management and employees of the acquisition wealthy, whereas Microsoft has the reputation, rightly or wrongly, of ruthlessly stomping their competition into the ground, and throwing those people out of work.
One example used is what Microsoft do to Netscape and to Borland. In those cases, however, MS actually purchased companies that made competing products, and used those acquisitions as the basis for stomping Netscape and Borland into the ground. It could fairly be said that Cisco has indeed stomped 3Com, Nortel, and Lucent into the ground in terms of routers and switches ( although not so successful in doing so in the carrier class markets ) OTOH, Cisco doesn't play well at all in the consumer space. Consumers like LOW prices. :-> ""Mark W. Odette II"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Totally off topic, but out of curiosity, does anyone ever refer to Cisco > or Cisco Systems in "Other" forums as Ci$co or Ci$co $ystems? > > Just a pondering thought... after all everyone seems to agree that Cisco > charges the most for their products in comparison to competitors, and > that the competitors seem to have Internetwork Devices that are far > superior in capabilities or performance in many cases compared to > Cisco's gear. > > ... or is this parallelism just something perpetuated by the *nix > community? > > Just something that struck my curiosity from the subtle tone of > ill-respect to Microsoft (usually referred to as MS). > > No flames please... just an observation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Cullimore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: need help !!! [7:49315] > > RS generally exhibits fewer instances of weird OSPF behavior than the > OS' > associated with their other enterprise products. Given the Redmond track > record of porting & severely mutating technologies from other vendors & > platforms, I'm not sure that it's necessary to look beyond corporate > boundaries to account for strange behaviour associated with M$ products, > although it would most certainly depend upon the types of anomalies > observed. Your example doesn't necessarily correlate well with observed > RS > behavior. Do you have others? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "cebuano" > To: > Sent: 20 July 2002 9:21 pm > Subject: RE: need help !!! [7:49315] > > > > Hmmm. I wonder if the strange OSPF behavior of W2K was inherited from > > them. > > I still haven't found out why the DR and BDR roles in W2K flap like > > every 45-60 secs. At least when I tested it in a classroom > environment. > > > > Elmer > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 9:05 PM > > To: cebuano; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: need help !!! [7:49315] > > > > At 8:31 PM +0000 7/20/02, cebuano wrote: > > >Dear OSPF, > > >Your W2K server has RRAS installed by default, but you need to turn > > this > > >ON or it will not route, PERIOD. Not even between its directly > > connected > > >interfaces. W2K supports both RIPv2 and OSPF (I mean, the protocol > ;-> > > >). > > > > RRAS, incidentally, is a port of Wellfleet/Bay RS. > > > > >HTH, > > >Elmer > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of > > >ospf > > >Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 3:15 PM > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: need help !!! [7:49315] > > > > > >Dear group ! > > > > > > Do you guys have ever setup a Win2000 server act like a router ? > My > > >customer > > >want to connect a branch office to their head office by dial-up from > a > > >Win2000 > > >server to Cisco router. > > > > > > I have setup the connection between router and this remote server. > I > > >have > > >added route in win2000 server. But surely a server can not forward > > >packets. > > > Help me pls Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=49368&t=49315 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
