Re: Rack vendors supporting cciecert labs?

was it cconline?

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Brian Landers <brian_at_bluecoat93.org> wrote:

> So today I got a marketing email from a fairly well-known rack rental
> vendor
> (don't really feel like calling them out, so I won't say who, but it wasn't
> one of the "big two"). It reads, in part:
>
> Due to an increased number of users coming to us using the cciecert lab
> workbooks, we have modified our physical topology to better map to those
> labs.
>
> I exchanged a couple of emails with them, and the justification went from
> "cciecert labs are no more real than INE or IPexpert" to "I'm sure Cisco
> knows all about it and if they cared they'd shut them down" and "this is
> what our customers are asking for, and we have to compete with Dynamips".
>
> They're of course free to run their business however they like, but does
> anyone
> else find it incredibly depressing?
>
>
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