Craig Ford wrote in a message to David Bowerman:
 DB> From the news stories, it would seem that 3Com and Lucent are
 DB> "rushing to market" with their modems/chipsets after interop
 DB> testing between their units.  Seems a trifle strange here that
 DB> while Lucent managed to cooperate with Rockwell in combining their
 DB> two 56K protocols to form K56Flex, we are now expected to believe
 DB> that Lucent was not willing to do interop testing with Rockwell? 
 CF> Lucent was _badly_ burned by Rockwell with K56Flex. They were
 CF> vehemently opposed to Rockwell's release of K56Plus client/server
 CF> code that was masquerading as "K56Flex". -That- was a rush to
 CF> market.
But according to Richard, K56Plus *was* K56Flex.  Just not a version 
compatible with the Lucent/Rockwell blend. 
 DB> Perhaps Rockwell is expecting 3Com and Lucent to wait to do interop
 DB> testing with the V.90 recommendation as interpreted by Rockwell
 DB> before shipping any production units?
 CF> Recall the position that Rockwell and its clients took after V.34
 CF> was voted out of SG14? See anything different now?
No.
Regards,
       David
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