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It makes a lot of sense. Goog has been using Juniper for a while, so goog really understand the problem domain and what % of that problem is solved by Juniper's
by prakash 18y ago
It makes a lot of sense. Goog has been using Juniper for a while, so goog really understand the problem domain and what % of that problem is solved by Juniper's products.
They would also know what they like & dis-like in terms of features their product should have vs. juniper which probably address a wider customer wish list; maybe & I am speculating here, Juniper takes a long time to turn around on features or some features are custom to goog and Juniper doesn't want to build them.
So goog gets to design a product that fits their needs for the next few years. If the product turns out well there might even be tremendous competitive advantage since googs competitors can't buy it.
Worst case things don't work out and they go back to buying Juniper.
- mseebach 18y ago> Goog has been using Juniper for a while Don't you mean JNPR? I've never understood this idea about speaking of companies in terms of their stock ticker symbol.
- wmf 18y agoI've never understood this idea about speaking of companies in terms of their stock ticker symbol. It makes sense if your only interest in a company is how much money you can make from its stock.
- gaius 18y agoThe odds that Google has the best whatever engineers in the world diminishes as whatever gets further and further from search and advertising. Are they going to be designing their own processors? Fabbing them? DEC is the last company I can think of that was fully vertically integrated, even Apple isn't.
- flashgordon 18y agoVint Cerf is already under Google's patronage. I am pretty sure TCP/IP is not exactly Google's "core" business! No matter how far the "whatever" is, it is clearly helping and supporting search and advertising.