[AusNOG] Megaport Suspends Accepting New Orders in PIPE DC's

[Chris Ricks]

Clearly they're not interested in my strategy, or anyone else's for that
matter - their strategy is clearly decided based on their business
objectives and not the objectives of mine (or any other) business.

Thankfully, I can confirm that the business partners we work with (many
of which have representatives on this list) have acted with our needs
and requirements in mind and I've not needed to refer to contracts on
any occassion in memory.

On 14/01/2014 11:40 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> TPG aren't interested in your strategy. They're already in the
> end-game where you are not a player. Find business partners who always
> act in your interest and work with them. Failing that, force them to
> via contracts.
>
> John Lindsay
>
> On 14 Jan 2014, at 10:35 pm, Chris Ricks <chris.ricks at securepay.com.au
> <mailto:chris.ricks at securepay.com.au>> wrote:
>
>> From my company's persepctive, carrier diversity is a critical part
>> of network design (unless there simply isn't a means of achieving
>> said diversity).
>>
>> Policies such as the one TPG *appear* to be pushing (first Vocus and
>> now Megaport) would be a dealbreaker for us, and I know I'm not alone
>> in that thinking.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>> On 14/01/2014 8:59 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>>> Of course they are going to launch a competing product, but they
>>> will have fun delivering it to any DC they don't own.
>>>
>>> If they push the issue with Megaport, then other DC's will probably
>>> do the same right back at them... I think it is an extremely dumb
>>> move on their behalf.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...Skeeve
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org
>>> <mailto:mpalmer at hezmatt.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:26:31AM +0000, Alex Samad -
>>>     Yieldbroker wrote:
>>>     > Devil's advocate, what if they are not looking to win, but to
>>>     delay ..
>>>
>>>     I suppose they could have a competing product to Megaport in the
>>>     works, but
>>>     if so, they've done themselves out of a few customers through
>>>     their actions
>>>     so far.  Not a great way to start a product launch...
>>>
>>>     - Matt
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