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To: MMW who wrote (18517)	10/29/1998 1:01:00 AM
From: Bindusagar Reddy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 77397

Standards are there to be broken by new technologies, if one becomes complacent. Give me a break, IOS is not going to rule the networking. It is in the process of a major shift in technology. Just be cautious. Routers as they exist will be extinct in 3 years, replaced by new unannounced technologies, that will blow your mind. Routers are the biggest bottleneck in the Internet. Unless CSCO adopts, instead of protecting their old technologies, it may be extinct as well in 5 years. BR

To: MMW who wrote (18517)	10/29/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: jach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

<Unix Operating system. Let us be fair... IOS software becomes a standard> Unix is a great OS. The point made was "unseating Windows". Unix is never ever going to unseat Windows. It's too little too late now. Too bad all these vendors earlier could not get their act together to have a unified version of Unix when Windows was in its infancy. In addition, Unix has neglected the end users. No end users will like to see their process sometimes transforming to zombies. Unix still will play some key role in the Corporate mkt, but absolutely totally gone for the end user mkt. Seen any Unix applications in the computer store such as Comp USA? Even end user wants to use Unix, the cost of applications will be much much more expensive than Windows applications. As for IOS, imo, if a whole bunch of cryptic CLIs put together is the so called standard then we're going backwards in technology. Note that routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP are standard and all routers including csco implement them.