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Single, dual or multivendor sourcing - which works better?

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Single, dual or multivendor sourcing - which works better?

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler
In recent newsletters we invited different vendors to help weigh up the pros and cons of single-vendor integrated networks vs. best of breed. Klaus Hofmann, Senior Director Enterprise Solutions Marketing at Juniper wrote to us and outlined a somewhat different viewpoint to those of Cisco and Nortel. According to Klaus: "The truth is there's a better approach: a dual vendor strategy." Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com

Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail.

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