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Re: (ASCEND) Quality (was GRF)




Ascend might learn somthing from Cisco. There are parallel trees of
revisions, depending if you want features or stability.  Cant have both in
the same tree. Users have diffrent requirements, some want new features,
some want stability, there should be a choice.

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Leon McCalla wrote:

> I am not even considering the GRF because i have too many problems with my
> Maxes and Pipelines. Granted the Maxes only misbehave every couple of months
> or so but the ciscos NEVER even hickup. Pipelines run well unless you add
> the firewall and then you run into problems..
> 
> I think one problem is that engineering adds new features to a semi stable
> stable product. If 5.0Ap42 still has problems why was 6.0 released? I would
> have been comfortable in seeing the 5.0i release line continue untill it had
> reached stability.
> 
> Leon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >> One of the things that made us decide to go for the GRF over the Cisco
> >> was the number of high-volume providers that have switched to them --
> >> including ours.  However, a casual remark on a phone call with said
> >> provider for a totally different reason reveals that they're in the
> >> process of removing their GRFs and going back to Ciscos, due to software
> >> instability and other problems.  The person I spoke with didn't know the
> >> full details.
> >
> 
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