On the plus side for Boeing, they have a very long track record of building things that live in space for long periods of time. Boeing acquired the Hughes geostationary satellite business based in the Los Angeles area a long time ago.

There's many 10 and 15 year old fully functional geostationary telecom satellites out there in orbit (Boeing 702 bus, etc) in "production" use with the world's largest satellite telecommunications companies. That's a track record SpaceX can't lay claim to just yet.

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/hs-702.htm