John Galt
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Re: Won't happen again
said by TKJunkMail  :This was a nice capabilty for the WRT54G Linksys router. But Linksys won't make this mistake again in newer products and neither will other vendors of commercial routers. So enjoy the WRT54G while you can. Open Source code won't be in any of the newer products using MIMO or 802.11n when it is finalized. Yes...it was a mistake...that allowed them to sell tens of thousands more units than they would have sold otherwise.
Obviously they would be fools to do THAT again.
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nixen
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| said by John Galt :said by TKJunkMail :This was a nice capabilty for the WRT54G Linksys router. But Linksys won't make this mistake again in newer products and neither will other vendors of commercial routers. So enjoy the WRT54G while you can. Open Source code won't be in any of the newer products using MIMO or 802.11n when it is finalized. Yes...it was a mistake...that allowed them to sell tens of thousands more units than they would have sold otherwise. Obviously they would be fools to do THAT again. It was great for Linksys, but not for Cisco. Think of it: if you can buy a $50 router that can be upgraded to the same capabilities as a $300 device, which are you going to buy?
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John Galt
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2 edits | said by nixen :It was great for Linksys, but not for Cisco. Think of it: if you can buy a $50 router that can be upgraded to the same capabilities as a $300 device, which are you going to buy? I'll stick with all the comments that I have made so far...
Cisco bean counters bought Linksys because they were a reasonably close fit...and they were profitable. Then they decided to kill the golden goose.
I've seen the same thing before...managers who know nothing about "value" and everything (they like to think) about "cost". I worked in heavy construction for 30 years. These "book-taught" manager guys bought us "homeowner" quality tools like this:
»www.blackanddecker.com/ProductGu···tID=6321
instead of quality "production" tools like this:
»www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_···tID=8258
They just couldn't understand that there was a difference. Their thinking was..."they are both "drills", aren't they??"
If Cisco thinks that they are going to stop OTHER manufacturer's from deploying open source...it just won't happen. One day some company like Netgear will wake up and decide to follow the former Linksys path. They won't have "enterprise" quality gear...so they will GLADLY suck up the market share that Cisco is abandoning. Of course, in the future, Cisco will see that they made a tactical error, but it will be too late to recover the lost market share.
MBAs are highly reactive...not pro-active. They want quantification, and because a "geek" thing like "cool" cannot be quantified...it gets disregarded.
"It's still a Linksys, isn't it??"...
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