26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
4:11 p.m.
History shows that if you can build a mousetrap that is technically better than anything on the market, your best route for success is to sell it into niche markets where the customer appreciates the technical advances that you can provide and is willing to pay for those technical advances. I don't think that describes the larger Internet provider networks.
and this has been so well shown by the blazing successes of bay networks, avici, what-its-name that burst into flames in everyone's labs, ... watch out for flying pigs randy