From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:57:12 -1000
Mikael,
On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
Suggestion: next time you buy equipment from competing vendors, tell the sales folk from the losing vendors that one deciding factor was (vendor or product) IPv6 support. That (and perhaps only that) will get their attention... :-) Well, considering how very few vendors actually support IPv6, it's hard to find proper competition.
You don't have to tell the truth to the losing sales folk... :-)
Yes, I saw the smiley, but what you suggested could cause a lot of suffering if it is a formal bid. (If a mom-n-pop buys a 2960, probably not an issue.) Ethical issues aside, giving incorrect information to a losing vendor is fraud and, at least in the public sector, can get you in more trouble than you would ever want to think about being in. Our procurement officers are scrupulous in detailing the required information for the losing bidder's debrief on contracts of any size. This means putting in just as much information as is required and nothing more and making sure that what is included is correct. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751