Chuck, You have to read today's Dilbert! Dilbert says, "My new design will meet all of our customer's needs, both current and future."
But the sales dweebs say, "That's no good. They'll never need to upgrade. We need flaws, flaws, flaws." It degererates from there. The last line is especially funny. I think Scott Adams saw your message!? :-) See here for Dilbert: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/ Priscilla The Long and Winding Road wrote: > > When we last saw our hero ( yours truly ) he was up to his ears > in a major > AVVID deal. Lorda mercy, what a motherf***** The customer RFP > was crap, the > turnaround time was cruel and unusual, and then when the > bidders all came > back with numbers in the high 8 million range, the customer > threw us all > out, and told us to come back when we could sell a system that > would cost > the customer no more than X dollars per year on a five year > lease. > > On top of that, you have Cisco sticking their nose in every > chance they get > bitching about my choices of routers. "You can do it cheaper. > we don't want > to lose the business because you're overspecifying routers" For > an AVVID? > with unknown call volume? and unknown data traffic? Give me a > break. It > ain't Cisco who's ass is gonna be kicked if the voice quality > sucks. > > Layer 8 - politics, particularly of the customer > layer 9 - politics - the sales account rep > layer 10 - Cisco > > gotta say, though, this is gonna be one sweet project. for once > I believe we > have a good technical solution combined with ample project > hours for > assessments and implementation. > > but this whole process was still a motherF***** > > BTW, anyone have any comments on the new 1760V and 2651V > packages? I > specified them in a couple of smaller sites. I used my cutoff > point as > roughly 30 phones / 100 data ports, due to the great unknowns. > DSP > resources, transcoding resources, and CPU hits when doing > conference > calling, transcoding, and QoS were major concerns. > > 37XX routers sure seem like nice boxes. anyone got any > comments? Their > performance anywhere near what the spec sheet says? > > -- > TANSTAAFL > "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62724&t=62616 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
