More lines of code -> more bugs
" -> more complexity
" -> harder to support
I, and many of my friends, have experience in different corporations.
These truisms have been proven repeatedly. Especially the first one.
>and is performs well in the tasks that it is suited for. Cisco has, and
>will probably always have you beat in features and scalability.
As far as engineering talent and technology is concerned we could do
something like their huge routers. But where is the margin in that?
That market isn't all that large. Does it make sense to try to be another
Cisco?
These aren't jokes, they are serious questions. Livingston is growing -
phenomenally - so maybe we will. But it is one product at a time, one
feature at a time.
A year ago we went from an analog access box builder to analog and ISDN.
Now we have a PRI unit coming out. A year ago the first office router had
just come out - now we have 4 models in the family. A year ago the PM-25
was new, the PM-2eR was only a few months old, OSPF was just getting
underway (in late beta now), BGP was only being discussed (working test
code in house now), a lot of new features have been added to all units.
If you step back and look at what has developed in just the past year, it
is really incredible. The next year should be better.
>> Are you aware that 'Cisco IOS' is NOT the same code tree on all boxes?
>> ALL versions of ComOS are built from the same code tree.
>Again, who care? "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck..."
Upgrades. New features.
We add a feature to ComOS and compile - the product line has it (HW
permitting of course, WAN support on a PM-2 is silly). You can't say the
same with IOS. They have a soup of different OS's that have been bashed
into looking like IOS to provide a similar user interface. But the
underlying feature set doesn't translate.
-MZ
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