conference w/ inventor of ethernet... what should i ask?

[intelligentfool]

Robert M. Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet and owner of 3Com is giving a lecture at the university of maryland at college park. I'm not 100% sure what the topic is going to be, but i was trying to think of some good questions to ask him if there's a Q&A....

any suggestions?

 

[spidey07]

Did you ever think Ethernet would be this widely adopted and scale to these kinds of speeds?

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or if you want to be really mean...
"Why did you abandon your enterprise customers in 1999?"

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Did you ever think Ethernet would be this widely adopted and scale to these kinds of speeds?

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or if you want to be really mean...
"Why did you abandon your enterprise customers in 1999?"

Gee, i'm pretty sure he would say, that question is out side the scope of this lecture/talk/etc.

I'm sure the op should ask a question that already implies they abandoned their customers.
Do you feel that 3coms abandoned its enterprise customers in 1999 becuase it coudn't cope with changing trends in the enterprise market.... or somehting like that.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: intelligentfool
Robert M. Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet and owner of 3Com is giving a lecture at the university of maryland at college park. I'm not 100% sure what the topic is going to be, but i was trying to think of some good questions to ask him if there's a Q&A....

any suggestions?

What is Next Mr. Metcalfe ?

:sun:

 

[intelligentfool]

haha, what did 3Com do to its enterprise customers?

and i like the one about scalability... i was thinking about asking him if he see's ethernet playing as important of a role 20 or 30 years from now.