Hello Kenneth,
That was an interesting observation:
"As you know, Microsoft got into trouble by tieing its operating system to other products - the browser and ofter software applications. Nortel, as the current leader in optical networking, has to be careful about about tieing OPTera or its OC-192 to its switches and routers. Of course, Nortel's current market strength in optics, is not even close to Microsoft's dominance in the PC operating system."
I should think that NT's caution would be from another perspective, and that is, they don't want to be written off as a proprietary solution. They would want to keep openness in their design so that they could be used in an infinite number of solution types, and tied into an infinite number of other vendors' wares, and not just those which are deemed to be single-vendor, vertically integrated solutions of their own. But to be honest, I don't see a real threat here from the DoJ at this time, although one never really knows, truly, where the borders of paranoia should be erected.
FAC |
