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Re: (ASCEND) Lucent -=-> Ascend --> ? (fwd)

On 1 Sep 98, at 11:45, MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org> wrote:
> 
> Even if we were talking apples to apples I still believe the PM-4 would
> win - because of the Lucent HW and software integration.  Lucent's
> consulting group used MAXen - but they didn't buy Ascend, they bough
> Livingston.
> 

Now that's just plain a silly comparison. Lucent bought Livingston 
outright for around $650 million in stock. Last December, it would 
have cost them, conservatively, 10-15 times as much to buy 
Ascend. To suggest the purchase was made because they liked 
the PM4 better than the Max TNT is ridiculous - they may well 
have, but a little matter of 6-12 billion dollars might have entered 
into it as well.

Incidentally, I seem to see you (do I refer to you as Megazone? 
what does your mother call you?) post an an awful lot of very 
negative comments on Ascend products, and you're clearly a 
devout priest of the Church of Livingston, and it makes me wonder: 
why are you on this list? Not to suggest in any way you can't hang 
out here and say whatever you like, but it makes me curious if 
you're an Ascend user yourself (as in the name and purpose of the 
list), or more of a rabble rouser? Nothing personal, but everyone 
else here seems at least half ways familiar with your posts (at 
least they don't seem to suprise anyone else), so I'm guessing I 
must simply be in the dark.

Do tell...

Barry



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