But you wouldn't be willing to bear the cost of that CPU platform ;-)
>This holds true for most vendors of decent products, look how many
>different platforms cisco has IOS running on (mips/68k/etc). Its the
>SOFTWARE that makes cisco great, its the SOFTWARE that makes
>livingston great, its the SOFTWARE that makes netapp great.
>
>Its the SOFTWARE! (Did I say this before?)
Realistically its a combination of the two, but the components _are_ off
the shelf (just very efficiently put together), the software richness,
stability, etc... are asolutely the key.
>|>I rather like the fact that livingston uses off the shelf
>|>parts (like $10 486/66 cpus etc) because it will allow them better
>|>profit for more R&D for BETTER products that beat those heat burner
>|>piece of crap Ascend/cisco boxes.
>|
>|Now that much is much closer to the truth. If you think about it, another
>|reason is the tight focus and resistance to 'freeping creaturism'.
>|
>|>now, a 10 PRI box with full duplex 100baseT would be quite nice :-)
>|
>|That WOULD be nice.
As long as its with Livingston "values" in mind I'm sure ie.. it won't
cause you to break the bank!
Joe
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