> From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Actually, what Cisco did is *create* a market for counterfeit optics. What the BU's did was create a market for grey market (aka counterfeit) optics, memory, flash devices.... I have asserted before that what Cisco *should* have done for these commodity parts is establish a certification program where vendors could "pay to play" for validation and get a "cisco certified" stamp and let the vendors/market determine the pricing for these commodity components. (That too would be an imperfect solution, but it is better than what we have.) Unfortunately it appears that instead the BU's put in the 400% markup for commodity components into their business plans (Profit!!!) and pricing lists. The results (grey market/counterfeit) should have been expected. Maybe the BU managers missed that day in business school. Gary _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
