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Someone learned from the Cisco hardware glut in the dot com crash!

by RhysU 5y ago

actually_a_dog 5y ago
Learned what? How to create a bunch of junk that will be unusable in a few years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
delfinom 5y ago
Just don't give them ideas about Cisco's current solution of moving to subscription based licensing network switches
- deleted 5y ago
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- berdario 5y ago
  That's basically GeForce Now, in this context... So, I'm afraid that they already got (and applied) the idea :p
- kogepathic 5y ago
  > moving to subscription based licensing network switches Moving to? Cisco owns Meraki, subscription based licensing is Meraki's entire business model.
cerved 5y ago
can somebody explain?
- lazide 5y ago
  Cisco and Sun were the go-to big name equipment suppliers to many startups around the dot-com days. A lot of it was stupid expensive (like 150k for a sun server with the performance of a 5k Linux box, or 20k for a basic Cisco router). Well, when the startups folded a huge amount of that equipment got sold for pennies on the dollar and Cisco basically almost went bankrupt - and Sun basically did.
  - ricktdotorg 5y ago
    the glory days of just bonkers sun servers! as a young pup consultant fresh in the USA, i was lucky enough to help setup a fully loaded sun enterprise e10000, gigantic (for the time) external disk arrays and a room-sized storagetek powderhorn[0]. it was in dallas for an insurance company ~1997. all in-house apps, crunching credit card risk stuff i think? an interesting quirk is that they were an almost all-X11 shop! they had a really sweet custom CDE setup. not what you'd expect at that type of firm. would love to know what that e10k eventually sold for. [0] https://iscgroupllc.com/en/supported-equipment/tape-libraries/stk-sun-oracle-tape-libraries/stk-9310/ https://iscgroupllc.com/en/supported-equipment/tape-librarie...
PartiallyTyped 5y ago
They also learned from the previous crypto crash where they were stuck with a huge stash of 1060s.

Someone learned from the Cisco hardware glut in the dot com crash!

by RhysU 5y ago

Someone learned from the Cisco hardware glut in the dot com crash!

Learned what? How to create a bunch of junk that will be unusable in a few years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

delfinom 5y ago

Just don't give them ideas about Cisco's current solution of moving to subscription based licensing network switches

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berdario 5y ago
That's basically GeForce Now, in this context... So, I'm afraid that they already got (and applied) the idea :p
kogepathic 5y ago
> moving to subscription based licensing network switches Moving to? Cisco owns Meraki, subscription based licensing is Meraki's entire business model.

cerved 5y ago

can somebody explain?

lazide 5y ago
Cisco and Sun were the go-to big name equipment suppliers to many startups around the dot-com days. A lot of it was stupid expensive (like 150k for a sun server with the performance of a 5k Linux box, or 20k for a basic Cisco router). Well, when the startups folded a huge amount of that equipment got sold for pennies on the dollar and Cisco basically almost went bankrupt - and Sun basically did.
- ricktdotorg 5y ago
  the glory days of just bonkers sun servers! as a young pup consultant fresh in the USA, i was lucky enough to help setup a fully loaded sun enterprise e10000, gigantic (for the time) external disk arrays and a room-sized storagetek powderhorn[0]. it was in dallas for an insurance company ~1997. all in-house apps, crunching credit card risk stuff i think? an interesting quirk is that they were an almost all-X11 shop! they had a really sweet custom CDE setup. not what you'd expect at that type of firm. would love to know what that e10k eventually sold for. [0] https://iscgroupllc.com/en/supported-equipment/tape-libraries/stk-sun-oracle-tape-libraries/stk-9310/ https://iscgroupllc.com/en/supported-equipment/tape-librarie...

PartiallyTyped 5y ago

They also learned from the previous crypto crash where they were stuck with a huge stash of 1060s.