biased feeling against 3com

[Aaron]

Now don't take this the wrong way.  I don't know you and I have no idea what
your level of experience/expertise is.  This is simply my thought on this
because I see so many people in the same boat your in.

Why would you ever sink all your expertise in one vendor?  Especially with
the way this market is (and always has been).  I too was a 3com based
network engineer.  When they dropped all the core products I simply moved to
Cisco.  I had taken the time to study both and could move between the two
with equal proficiency, ad I can with Lucent (Ascend) and even the crappy
low end junk (Netopia, etc...)

Again, not a personal slam, but I see this all the time.  Like Linux....  I
love Linux.  it's my preferred OS.  I'll never give up Microsoft or
Solaris... I can administer them all equally.  If some day everyone stops
using Windoze, I can move to Linux, or maybe everyone will suddenly switch
to Solaris.  I can do that also.

The point is that the fundamentals are all the same.  It just takes a little
tweaking (and remembering not to type ls on a dos/windows box... oh, that's
embarrassing...) and it makes for great job security.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike neuliep" <mike at marauder.illiana.net>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: biased feeling against 3com

> This is just my two cent's worth so don't take it as anything beyond that:
>
> I will never recommend the purchase of any other 3com product to anyone
ever
> again.  Three weeks before they broke up the company and exited the high
end
> switch market (which they're back into it again) I purchased $600000 worth
of
> equipment from them.  Four months later our company traded all the core
> builders in for comparable cisco equipment.  3com's decision to do this
> basically changed my career because previous to that I had been a 3com
based
> network engineer deploying 3com routers, switches and remote access
devices
> where ever I worked.  This company has no customer loyalty and the support
> is not very good.  Hell it was never very good even when I did advocate
their
> products.  *sigh* Only if I had started in with cisco products from day
one
> I might have had a better career...
>
> Mike