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RE: (ASCEND) reality check! (fwd)
MZ, you took the diatribe personally I'm afraid. I did not mean it to
sound that way - I apologize. But to be fair, everyone except Ascend
has entered the market after Ascend by some time frame. Everyone has a
much (much) smaller installed 56K user base to get reports back from,
and everyone has had some opportunity (at some length of time) to watch
Ascend and Rockwell wrestle with problems. Therefore everyone has gotten
to go to school so to speak, at least partially on Ascend's nickel.
I'm certainly not trying to kiss any Ascend ass here, the folks that
know me and my company know very well that we are not happy with many of
the aspects of what has been going on. BUT, the previous thread was
getting just a little too far fetched especially for people who have not
seen the history. I simply tried to add some reality, which I think had
merit.
Now I'm up to $.04 and I've thrown in my hand :-)
Best regards,
David Van Allen - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation
dave@fast.net (888)321-FAST(3278) http://www.fast.net
FASTNET - Business and Personal Internet Solutions
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MegaZone [SMTP:megazone@livingston.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 1997 9:43 AM
>To: ascend-users@bungi.com
>Subject: (ASCEND) reality check! (fwd)
>
>Once upon a time Dave Van Allen shaped the electrons to say...
>>nobody is winning right now except all of the other manufactures (Cisco,
>>Livingston, Bay, et al) who have not taken a lead to bring a product to
>
>To be fair we've been shipping the Lucent K56flex for a month or so now,
>and we're having our our brand of "fun".
>
>Cisco is also shipping their Rockwell K56flex boards, users are starting
>to talk about them on the newsgroup.
>
>>market and are just sitting back watching the 'collective us' and
>>pioneers like Ascend work out all of the bugs for them.
>
>Hardly - Ascend is not the only one out there.
>
>A lot of the early problems were due to Ascend/Rockwell deciding to foist
>K56Plus off as K56Flex, and it was not ready for primetime. Rockwell's
>official fix is to upgrade to Flex.
>
>-MZ
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