If you understand what you're doing, changing vendors shouldn't be that big a deal.

Does this model support whatever feature?  And what are the commands to implement it?  That's what reference books and documentation are for.

Much like changing programming languages isn't nearly the deal some make it out to be.

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Unbelievably awesomesauce to the absurd degree that I wet myself.
Who else has created a LW/magnets
so explicit the mods deleted a screencap of it? =P