biased feeling against 3com

Kurt Kessler kessler2k at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 21 18:32:12 CDT 2002


I didn't mean to kick the hornet's nest... ;)

But reading some of these posts, has given me some
excellent advice, and I will take it all to heart. 

Kurt

--- mike neuliep <mike at marauder.illiana.net> wrote:
> Aaron, interesting observation.  But yes, I have a
> really good diversified 
> skillset.  Migrating to cisco  from 3com was a
> breeze because all the concepts
> were the same.  Thank goodness for standards and
> interoperability.  These kind
> of events are why I'll never use proprietary
> protocols like eigrp (unless, 
> perhaps the GNU zebra project fully supports it
> http://www.zebra.org).
> 
> It is a tough call, specialization in one OS or
> network vendor can lead to very
> high salaries as you are now the expert, but that
> also makes you the first to
> get the axe when the company is looking to roll
> heads.  On the flip side the jack
> of all trades kind of person won't make nearly as
> much, but will have more stable
> employment and if they do get the axe, they'll have
> an easier time finding a job.
> My advice here, be both, be diversified as well as
> an expert in one subject.
> 
> So with that in mind, I'm not even going to examine
> the merits of the 3com
> integrated firewall! :-)  (which is what got me
> started on this....)
> 
> 	Mike
> 
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