From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <34fb3eddc20e59e384f4ca8aa33277aa@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9/Inferno based commercial products/services From: Geoff Collyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:37:29 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 141fe522-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 PathStar was killed after some had been sold. The dot-com bubble burst and many of the customers couldn't pay their bills, and some people thought that there weren't going to be many new customers. There was also political maneuvering by competing groups within the company. I forget the exact timing; I think PathStar was cancelled in late 2000; certainly no later than March 2001. I thought PathStar was Lucent's last hope, but apparently management thought that people are going to buy 7R/Es (the follow-on to the 5ESS). If they couldn't afford PathStars, which were relatively inexpensive, they certainly won't be able to afford 7R/Es (except perhaps used, on ebay, where I see various 5ESS components).