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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by technion on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:46AM (#12302746)
The margins in particular are something I cannot understand from Cisco.

Technology in general comes down in pricing. I'm constantly amazed at the vendors that introduce newer, more powerful product lines, with a reduced price tag from anything previously seen.

Cisco here, are a huge outlier. Despite HPE and Juniper creeping much more competitive options into their enterprise space, twice or so times a year we get alerts from Cisco about "across the board" price increases.

Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by MichaelGG on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:39AM (#12304179)
Maybe it's like MS and SQL Server. More and more installs are getting replaced. So they raise prices to focus on their customers that have no choice.