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Integrated Cisco and UNIX Network Architectures (Cisco Press Networking Technology) Review by Dipl -Ing Gernot Schmied
Author's comment on Mr. Boudville's "review"
Dear Mr. Boudville, first of all I am sorry to disappoint you, there is no "world conspiracy" going on and if you find any "area 51" reference in the OSPF section this is purely by coincidence ;-).
I can assure you that both Cisco Press (Pearson Publishing) and Cisco were very enthusiastic about the book approach, during all my time of working on the manuscript I never got the impression of any hidden agenda or "shrewd strategy" as suspected in your review, nothing but inspiring conversations and peer reviews. You should ask yourself if you would have expressed the same biased opinion when the exactly same book would have been published with O'Reilly or Prentice Hall. In addition, I chose non-Cisco reviewers for the book on purpose. Besides, a lot of UNIX enthusiasts work in San Jose among the smart people of Cisco development. I am not sure whether a book review platform is the appropriate place to express a "conspiracy theory" without even talking about the content, but I do not mind, it's a free world.
I can assure you that the point of view expressed is solely mine and I would not have had it any other way, I did not mention Linux or BSD in the title on purpose as well to stay generic. Nevertheless, there are always psychological and paranoid perceptions involved when reading between the lines, Linux against Cisco, Linux against Intel, Linux against Microsoft, Linux against BSD, Debian against Gentoo, Redhat against SUSE... The reality in almost all of my consulting projects is a coexistence by reason and not Linux/BSD/.. for the sake of Linux as proposed by radical evangelists.