RE: Avocent to acquire Cyclades

P.S. Sorry for the ASSP spam tag on that e-mail...

Steve Lammert wrote:
> I feel your pain.  We have over fifty Cyclades TS units supporting 
> nearly 2300 console lines.  They've been a rock-solid part of our 
> infrastructure for nearly five years.
>
> Sigh.
>
>
> Brodie, Kent wrote:
>
> > Oh man.   I appear to have been the victim of this a lot (that is,
> > managing some REALLY good technology, and then some big mother ship
> > swallows up said company, and the products I end up with all eventually
> > suck...).
> >
> > The first of this was DIGITAL.   We all know what happened there.   And
> > so on.
> >
> > Fortunately, on the ASSUMPTION that the existing cyclades line of boxes
> > get shelved, there should be (I would hope) enough surplus and/or
> > "previously owned" boxes out there to find one if you really need.
> >
> > I personally have been VERY happy with my cyclades boxes--  between that
> > and conserver, I have something like 72 servers whose console ports I
> > have configured.   I have another 25 to add, just haven't gotten to them
> > yet.
> >
> > NEVER had an issue.  And I'm doing console access via serial/SSH and all
> > that.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com]
> > On Behalf Of John Stoffel
> > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:53 PM
> > To: Dr. Dirk Wetter
> > Cc: users@conserver.com
> > Subject: *****SPAM*****  Re: Avocent to acquire Cyclades
> >
> >
> > This is the end, Avocent makes sub-standard boxes IMNSHO.  Sigh...
> >
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