On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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?
That turns into a forest > trees problem. Many salescritters don't think about the larger picture, or the responsible business units don't care about what affects other business units. Also, in the 10G-and-up world, most of those optics are a lot more than $3digits. jms