Good point! The other one is "Choose your battles wisely."
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:52 PM To: Christopher J. Wolff Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back On Tue, 21 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: > > So, regardless of whether the hardware is the fastest thing on the > block, pushing 10 nanobits at a megaflop, you can look like a fool if > you don't consider the business repercussions of the vendor you > choose. In the end, I didn't get my design approved until I chose > Cisco. Was I pissed, sure! Did I ship off white papers and other > propaganda to support my case? Yes! But the company went bankrupt > about 2 weeks after I submitted the bid. "No one gets fired for buying IBM." /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/
