Re:Cisco VP Vows to Make Hunting Secret-Leaker His ‘Hobby’
by happywolf on Monday November 12, 2012 @10:53AM
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Ten years ago, the Cisco brand was equivalent to high-end, enterprise networking gears. Any company that used Cisco gears would get a 'wow' from people who were in the know. However the trend reversed and I have not heard any of my IT friends mentioning it for quite sometime, aside the aperiodic snide remarks on its price tags.
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Re:Cisco VP Vows to Make Hunting Secret-Leaker His ‘Hobby’
by mhurron on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:41AM
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Honestly it was the same with Sun. Ten years ago ( a little more really ) you were still dealing with the growth, and perceptions, related to the dotcom era. Sun was "ooo wow" Cisco was "ooo wow".
However, routers and switches are everywhere now. So are UNIX servers. Cisco and Sun became normal. Everyone had them, everyone ran them and for a lot of people you simply never asked 'Do I get a Cisco router for this,' it just happens.
Cisco still makes high end enterprise devices. It's just normal now.