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Technology Stocks : BAY Ntwks (under House) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George A. Roberts who wrote (3109)	12/12/1997 1:47:00 PM
From: Hop Sing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6980

George: If I were you and I was upset and worried over what an NCR engineer, uh, installer, configuring a SOHO router said I would sell my Bay and buy a CD. As for my customers - most are in business with much competition and utilize technology to gain an edge over the other guy. They "do" want to experience the "latest greatest sparkle" because in my world you are toast if you do not. Obviously you have no grasp on what Adaptive Networking means but I can guarantee you that it does not involve wrapping and sealing an entire product line with an envelope such as brand C's IOS. And for the engineer that can not configure a Bay router in less than a day - Well,,,,,oh, never mind!!

To: George A. Roberts who wrote (3109)	12/12/1997 2:07:00 PM
From: Lerxst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6980

Ok, just relax already, the sky is not falling... As for the opinions of the NCR installer, what he says is generally true. Bay routers have always been more difficult to configure than Cisco's. This is old news and quickly becoming outdated. In the first days of the Backbone Node family, Wellfleet arrogantly believed that we would change how the world configured routers. Command line interface? You don't need a command line interface, we'll give you a Graphical interface. And thus was born Site Manager. The very beginnings of that project were rocky, GUI engineers writing network management apps and vice versa. Early on, Site Manager chewed up and spit out three managers in about a 2 year timeframe. This led to all sorts of interesting nicknames for the product, i.e. Site Mangler... The command line that existed was a direct interface into the MIB, not very straightforward. Today, however, we have Quick2Config and BCC which go a long way towards solving this issue. True we don't have a seemless and identical interface across all of our product lines. As an engineer, I view this as both good and bad. Having similar interfaces is generally a good thing, but saddling something new with the baggage of the legacy interface/os can slow development to a crawl. For example, witness the rumors of the trouble Cisco is having integrating IOS with the Granite stuff. Ah, well, it's a Friday and I'm ranting. I've recently lost several close friends to the West Coast and I'm sad. I also must now head off to another holiday celebration. Regards, Lerxst