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> They sure did learn their lesson. Is there any relevant reading material? I would have assumed diversification to be a good idea for such critical infra.
by antsar 11y ago
> They sure did learn their lesson.
Is there any relevant reading material? I would have assumed diversification to be a good idea for such critical infra.
- scurvy 11y agoI don't know if there is any reading material. I heard the story from someone who was on the front lines in the outage, directly dealing with the situation. Vendor diversification is a bad thing for critical infrastructure when interoperation is required. "It's a Cisco problem!" says the Juniper rep. "It's a Juniper problem!" says the Cisco rep. You're stuck in the middle. It's terrible. You can only hold one vendor's feet to the fire and they won't care at all if you're in a heterogeneous environment. Remember all the middleware products and companies from the late 90's? Neither do I.