Re: OT:Cisco becoming Microsoft ?

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 13:31, Joseph L. Brunner <joe_at_affirmedsystems.com> wrote:
> Cisco probably made more money this week in swing trading their own options than in the History of the Certification programs combined...
>
> A 150+ Billion dollar company makes money on financial engineering- not on the schmuck's back who slaps down his Capital One visa card and charges 1400 for a test

And you've nailed the problem with Cisco of today, precisely. They are
much more an investment bank these days than they are sound technology
company :-(. Don't get me wrong, they make great products, but the
problem is that products are slowly becoming secondary earning vessel
for them. That means that there is no focus to improve them in a
creative way... and that shows. I hate it, but that's how it is.

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