Jim,
There are at least 40 things that have to go right for a new business to be successful. As an engineer I find it disheartening that only four or five of them have to do with technology! Perhaps the equipment worked great and the business plan didn't? Greg On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 03:58, Jim Thompson wrote: > > Russell Nelson writes: > > Jim Thompson writes: > > > > > > Cisco purchased Clarity in Sept of 1998 for, what, $157M? > > > They announced the EOL on November 12, 2001. > > > > > > Lets call it 2 years. > > > > > > How much Clarity gear did Cisco sell? What was the ROI on this investment? > > > > Well, wait a second, Jim. Greg was saying that yes, sales were > > disappointing to Cisco and that's why they cancelled the product. > > You're saying that the equipment didn't work and that's why they > > cancelled the product. You're never going to convince Greg that the > > equipment didn't work by pointing to poor financial results. That's > > the evidence he's using to justify his conclusion. It ain't gonna go > > far in justifying your conclusion. > > Perhaps sales were dissapointing because the equipment didn't work? > > -- > "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." > -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
