Re: OT:Cisco becoming Microsoft ?

It is a bitter truth that Cisco is more focusing on how to SALE it's
products rather then improving them technically.

Hope Cisco will hear : )

2009/12/5 Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>

> 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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