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

[John Lindsay]

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> 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> 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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