Re: Rack vendors supporting cciecert labs?

I'll third it just because I can't see how that is a good idea by any
stretch....

Scott

On 10/24/10 9:49 PM, Narbik Kocharians wrote:
> I second that.
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tyson Scott <tscott_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
>
>> Forward it on to Cisco. The problem they have with shutting down these
>> companies is that when they do it just pops up somewhere else in another
>> country. But if a vendor in the US is willing to take that chance I can
>> almost guarantee that Cisco would be willing to take a stand against it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP
>> Managing Partner / Sr. Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
>> Mailto: tscott_at_ipexpert.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Brian Landers
>> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 7:43 PM
>> To: Cisco certification
>> Subject: Rack vendors supporting cciecert labs?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian C Landers
>> http://www.packetslave.com/
>> CCIE #23115 (R&S + Security)
>>
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