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To: Rene Madsen who wrote (22123)	2/7/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 77397

Rene, nice post, right to the point and I certainly agree with you. There is no substitute for quality, reliability, performance, good service, and expert knowledge when it comes to high technology, mission critical products. Price might be higher from a vendor that can provide all that, but the old saw "you get what you pay for" is trite but true. I'm new to Cisco, but it certainly looks like they are the one to go to first for network solutions. It used to be you'll never get fired for specifying IBM, say the same now for Intel, and Cisco must be the next one to apply that saying to. WHY the market leader is the market leader ... even with higher prices. It happens all the time. Also in the Server market, where IBM and HP would love to give Sun some competition. I think the situation is a little bit more complicated here. IBM and HP might just be giving Sun some competition and are gaining. Maybe not in UNIX solutions, but in NT. Yes, NT does have a ways to go wrt reliability and scalability and maybe a couple more "ty's". OTOH, Sun would love to grab some S390 business with their E10000's. Anyway, Cisco thread here, the world thinks of Cisco first for networking. Tony