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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (8964)5/22/2000 7:26:00 PM
From: jghutchison  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12623
 
Kenneth, They will be pushing a heavy load uphill. There are lessons in history.

Gorilla or chimp, carriers want an open architecture system. It keeps folks like Lucent and Nortel honest, and levels the playing field for everyone so that they all can compete on their merits.

Remember the proprietary IBM Micro Channel that failed so miserably? IBM at the time was the PC gorilla. Now, it is a third rate PC vendor, and hardly qualifies as a chimp.

Jack Hutchison