Bob La Quey wrote:
Knowing that security is always a hot topic here
I thought it would be useful to get you folks perspective
on this interview.
¨I think the whole RFC process is obsolete.¨
¨I think we could do away with the whole standards thing very easily
if a few customers just exercised their economic power a little bit
intelligently. Big customers have huge power, but they seem to have
forgotten that.
Actually, this is fallacious. The big firms have almost *zero* power
nowadays because so much in computing is a monopoly.
What exactly is any firm going to do to Microsoft that Microsoft
wouldn't laugh at?
What exactly is any firm going to do to Cisco that Cisco wouldn't laugh at?
In addition, no truly large company cares about interoperability. The
maintenance costs of a heterogeneous environment outweigh any pricing
advantage that could be wrung out of vendors by competitive bidding.
Furthermore, the biggest firms already get what they want *anyhow*.
This rant is the mumblings of a whiny middle tier with no market power
and no money to spend.
If they really wanted an interoperable VPN solution, they'd figure out
how to deploy Linux VPN's that talk to their Windows clients.
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