And if most people don’t buy that way - then it isn’t easy to get solid equipment that can do things that way - which makes it hard to get the equipment you need.
The question was about what the company can do, talking about external constraints, so I don't really care how purchasing departments work for that topic.
> And if most people don’t buy that way - then it isn’t easy to get solid equipment that can do things that way - which makes it hard to get the equipment you need.
For smaller companies, yes. Except the argument was that smaller companies could get them already, while Amazon would exhaust the world supply.
Once we move into the realm of companies that make their own markets, it doesn't matter what "most people" do. Those companies can make their own choices and get whatever they want made.
You can do both.
> And once you do the fix - which won’t require ipv6 or will use a different vendor - then you won’t be talking to them anyway.
It depends on whether you actually want to fix it.
> The underlying issue is that there is a lot of momentum with v4, and hacks mostly work and work faster and easier, so most people end up going that way. So it keeps the momentum.
Yes, which is very different from being unable to get the equipment you'd need.