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RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back
From: "Marc Pierrat" <marc () sunchar com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:40:05 -0400
How long has this company been in business? Are they using open standards? Do they have knowledgeable tech support? ..and so on.
Good startups make great partners, and a great partner will have crisp and compelling answers to these questions that CFO-types like, even before you start to ask them. Even so: you might not have needed such performance anyway, since your situation might have been risk_of_brand_name < risk_of_better_performance. (There's always a risk to choosing the "safe" alternative, but established vendors go through great lengths to make sure you don't see them.) This topic brings to mind a phrase I once read: "Truth and Technology will Triumph over Bullshit and Bureaucracy." -- PanAmSat's slogan(mantra?) as a startup, often accompanied by an image of Spot, dutifully lifting his leg to the competition (other interpretations abound)
Current thread:
- The market must be coming back Christopher J. Wolff (May 20)
- Re: The market must be coming back Scott Granados (May 20)
- RE: The market must be coming back Christopher J. Wolff (May 20)
- RE: The market must be coming back Gary (May 20)
- RE: The market must be coming back Chance Whaley (May 20)
- Re: The market must be coming back Richard A Steenbergen (May 20)
- RE: The market must be coming back Gary (May 21)
- The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back Christopher J. Wolff (May 21)
- Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back Patrick (May 21)
- RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back Christopher J. Wolff (May 21)
- RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back Marc Pierrat (May 22)
- RE: The market must be coming back Christopher J. Wolff (May 20)
- Re: The market must be coming back Scott Granados (May 20)
- RE: The market must be coming back Gary (May 21)
- Re: The market must be coming back Adam Rothschild (May 20)
- Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Gary (May 20)
- Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Mikael Abrahamsson (May 20)
- Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Richard A Steenbergen (May 20)
- RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Gary (May 21)
- Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Adam Rothschild (May 21)
- Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Richard A Steenbergen (May 21)
- Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Ralph Doncaster (May 21)