RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | Sales manager Nightmare Reading through all posts about how good the open source was and how bad the company is for abandoning OS and going back to proprietary shows how little people understand MBA (Master of Business Administration) types. I do not know if half of what is posted is true, but I can see it being so.
First, if you build something that is 'low end' (relatively) and it can be modded up, then you lose profit on the high end stuff that no one will buy now. Most of the time we build an item the way it should be, then cripple parts of the firmware to sell at the low end.
Second, MBA's are taught to be control freaks (based on fellow engineers who went MBA to get the higher paying management path) since knowledge is power. Thus, if it something that someone else can do without the MBA having control, it must go.
Just my take after 25 years in industry.
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:3 | said by RayW:First, if you build something that is 'low end' (relatively) and it can be modded up, then you lose profit on the high end stuff that no one will buy now. History is replete with the failures of companies run by MBA's. All they understand is "dollars" and nothing else.
It will be impossible for them to understand the reason for the success that the open source 54G has had. That is already evident by the new releases...
There is a huge gap between the functionality of the Linky boxes (even with the firmware replacement) and the-low end Cisco routers. If you need the increased horsepower and functionality of the Cisco boxes, you NEED it. Putting a Linky box in there and "wishing" that it will do the job just won't cut it...
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k_mumm
join:2001-06-14
Laramie, WY | Seriously man MBAs run almost every company. You may not like it but business degrees are important too. Look at the officers in most major companies. Most of them have a business degree. |
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 DaDogsSemper VigilantisPremium
join:2004-02-28
Deltaville, VA | reply to John Galt
said by John Galt:There is a huge gap between the functionality of the Linky boxes (even with the firmware replacement) and the-low end Cisco routers. If you need the increased horsepower and functionality of the Cisco boxes, you NEED it. Putting a Linky box in there and "wishing" that it will do the job just won't cut it... Ayup. The hobbyiest is by definition not a professional.
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:3 | reply to k_mumm
said by k_mumm:Seriously man MBAs run almost every company. You may not like it but business degrees are important too. Oh, I really don't mind them. They are easy to identify. They are the ones wandering around saying "what happened??"
The objective of every other responsible individual in an organization is the minimize the damage that these kind of people do. I'm not saying that they aren't useful, or that they don't have a place, but blind adherence to a policy of following the "bottom line" leads directly there...to the bottom.
At some point someone with common sense, understanding and real practical experience needs to demonstrate leadership.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to RayW
basic gist is that the suits had no clue what they had with open source, except being techno-numbnuts they feared their overpriced for low end cisco stuff would loose market to linksys division. when the OS firmware just make the cheapo hardware more capable but not really more powerfull. under full load on all ports and antennas id put money on a cisco of the same number of ports and wireless protocall loosing less packets no matter the firmware.
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