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Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:44:59 -0500

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:34:50 -0500, "Justin M. Streiner" said:

No salesperson is likely to do that for you.  They know only to well that 
eliminating vendor lock-in means they will lose sales on artificially 
costly optics from $vendor to a lower-cost rival.  Less sales = less 
commission for the affected sales person.

I suspect that losing the commission on a few $6digit chassis sales is worse
than losing the commission on a $3digit optic?

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