Frankly, I've been rather surprised at the level of the negativity that
has come across towards this idea in several of the posts and I'm not
sure why that is.
It is because you are talking about a site which
does not exist.
It is because when people are intrigued by the
idea and want to
Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I the only one who feels that an NDA, even an NDA with a vendor, is an
agreement that should be honored ?
I know they are silly in many case, but still...
We certainly wish for our vendors to honor *their* NDAs with us, don't
we? RIRs come
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote:
I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the
price of hardware vendor a, vendor b and vendor c's product offering
only to find out that you have to contact one of their sales reps, give
them all your contact company info (I'm
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:23:29 -0700
From: Matt Bazan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote
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I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the
price of hardware vendor a, vendor b
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Subject: RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price
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From: Matt Bazan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, September 16, 2005 6:37 pm
...
Now I fully realize that it's not a light matter to put ones job on the
line
I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the
price of hardware vendor a, vendor b and vendor c's product offering
only to find out that you have to contact one of their sales reps, give
them all your contact company info (I'm sure you know the drill)
listen to a sales
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:23:29 PDT, Matt Bazan said:
(answering the second part first)
to organize just such info. What I will need from all of you out there
is your real time quotes (anonymously submitted is just fine, black out
all the relevant personal/company info) and just include some
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if there was an online, updated daily, website that
listed real quotes oraganized by region in the country and company size?
Yes, it would be great, however it won't work.
I think so. Here's what I propose. I will design and host
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, and you can have up to 7 of these attached, unless you
have a those attached, in which case you can have 5 these
and one those or 4 these and 2 those. You know the
configurator drill.. ;)
Sure, go
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote:
I don't know about you, but how many times have you wanted to know the
price of hardware vendor a, vendor b and vendor c's product offering
only to find out that you have to contact one of their sales reps, give
them all your contact company info
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:
I've resigned myself to it being one of the things I get paid to do.
Ah yes, and don't forget that you can usually get rewarded for the time
that you have to spend listening to the sales pitch by squeezing out a
lunch or dinner or two out of the sales
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Sean Figgins
Yes, it would be great, however it won't work.
Couple points. This is true typically in only the largest enterprise
quotes. For the vast majority of medium and small business
Gang,
I just went through this matter in another venue (SAGe).
My company's policy, and I know there are others equally stringent, is
that I may divulge which products from which vendors I have looked at,
and I may tell which one I picked. However, I may not divulge my
processes for decision
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:55:51 EDT, David Hubbard said:
Don't forget about Well we're super sized network equipment
vendor X so if you rip out all of your equipment from vendor
Y, you can get discount + special discount. :-)
Heck, we've had vendor X give us a discount for ripping vendor X's
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote:
anonymous ;-) Besides, in today's crap economy, is a vendor really
going to come down on a client for violating an NDA and throw away ?
I personally don't have experience with this but I'm willing to bet that
most NDAs are more bark than bite.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Sean Figgins
Most of the vendors I know of like to wine and dine the VPs.
If a NDA gets violated, the vendor will not be forced to stop
dealing with the company, just get the employee that
On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Sean Figgins
Yes, it would be great, however it won't work.
Couple points. This is true typically in only the largest enterprise
quotes. For the
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:48:43PM -0700, Matt Bazan wrote:
I can see your points here. But, I think there still is value to the
medium and small companies that are not bound by these types of
agreements.
If they wanted their pricing published, they would do so themselves. Most
vendors go
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From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Obviously no one is wasting their time sueing you if your
company leaks the price of a low-end router to one or two of
your neighbors, it isn't worth the price of the lawyers, and
it isn't easy to prove.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:37:08PM -0700, Matt Bazan wrote:
a) the quote was in fact from a particular company (sure, it may look
darn similar - but prove? and if you're really worried, fudge some
details a bit)
- sure, if it's a $10 million quote that's one thing. But say a
On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
Actually, not the case. CDW and Dell (and all the others) only
publish
their prices for the low end gear that they sell. Anything else
requires a call to a rep and establishing a relationship.
This is not true, particularly with places like
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Matt Bazan wrote:
Now I fully realize that it's not a light matter to put ones job on the
line for this. However, I doubt, that in most cases, someone would get
fired for a first time offense. And, if worried, start with something
small. Bottom line is, the
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From: Matt Ghali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I am risking my career for you because...?
For life and liberty and...well, ok. I'm only requesting people to
provide this info if they're comfortable doing so. If not, sit back and
let's see what happens.
Uhh, make sure the data isn't stored anywhere vendor
X's attornies can get to it. Rest assured, whoever hosts the
site would be sent paperwork in hours, if not minutes from
it's discovery.
If need be I'll off shore it.
Matt
Fine, you can build it and off-shore it, but I suspect
If need be I'll off shore it.
Matt
you've had lots (some) folks point out the perceived dangers
of participating in such a venture. ... yet you continue to
insist that such a service will be of profound value to the
community as a whole and is not
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
you've had lots (some) folks point out the perceived dangers
of participating in such a venture. ... yet you continue to
insist that such a service will be of profound value to the
If need be I'll off shore it.
Matt
Fine, you can build it and off-shore it, but I suspect that
is a case
of if you build it they will not come.
Robbing points from each other at the deal desk has 0
value to all of us. It also has 0 operational value.
Ultimately, the smaller
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:48:43 PDT, Matt Bazan said:
Not sure I buy that line of reasoning. Hasn't happened in the myriad of
other consumer product lines that have open pricing.
The key word here is consumer product.
Actually, not the case. CDW and Dell (and all the others) only publish
Am I the only one who feels that an NDA, even an NDA with a vendor, is an
agreement that should be honored ?
I know they are silly in many case, but still...
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:12:40 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If need be I'll off shore it.
Matt
marshall,
No, you are not. We live or die by them.
Hilton
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
Am I the only one who feels that an NDA, even an NDA with a vendor, is an
agreement that should be honored ?
I agree as well. It amuses me to no end that this fellow is posting
from his work account at onelegal.com.
matto
[EMAIL
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From: Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matt Bazan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote
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Am I the only one who
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:46:32PM -0700, Matt Ghali wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
Am I the only one who feels that an NDA, even an NDA with a vendor, is an
agreement that should be honored ?
I agree as well. It amuses me to no end that this fellow is
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