biased feeling against 3com

[Patrick Thurmond]

I agree with you in cross platform and brand use, but I will definitely stress that 3COM is a waste 
of money. I used to help run a network for a school district and the main Admin was obsessed with 
3Com and we got an order of 200 3c905b nics and none of them worked on any dual-boot windows nt-98 
systems, only 5 worked with Novell, none worked with Linux, and the rest just plain didn't work. We 
had to exchange all 200 for a better model which gave us alot of problems and we had to reflash 
half the second batch. I then convinced the Admin to try Linksys and we NEVER had a problem, 
whether it was dual boot, or any version of Windows, Linux, or Novell. And the best thing about it 
is that the NICs cost half that of the 3Com nics. Sorry but 3Com will never, ever be ordered by me 
in this lifetime.
Aaron wrote: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"
To:
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


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