On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:18:28PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
While us techies may say we like abovenet's reaction more than uunet's reaction to their respective incidents, most of the buying decisions are made by managers who find abovenet's honesty scary and uunet's lack of publicly reported incidents comforting.
Well, I did make my buying decision based on AboveNet's full-disclosure policy, and so I am voting with my wallet. I didn't follow it, but I don't think that AboveNet's stock price reflected poorly on their policy either. Full disclosure is the only way to build better networks. If your customers can't see how you're performing, they can't choose based on that information. If you build a good network, you should have nothing to hide. Now, the question is: Is there a way to encourage more NSP's to be open about what they provide? It isn't a free market if providers collude to keep the information that consumers need to make an educated buying decision from them. -SteveK -- Steve Kann - Chief Engineer - 841 Broadway suite 502 - (212) 533-1775 HorizonLive.com - collaborate . interact . learn "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Linux."