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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by rmk on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:45PM (#8049373)
That's not really true. They bought SourceFire last year for a few billion.
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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by incision on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:12PM (#8049552)
>'That's not really true.'

Sure it is, there just happen to be exceptions.

Of the 21 years and 136 Cisco acquisitions with prices on Wikipedia, 14 come in over $1B. The average price overall is $530M, and the average price excluding >$1B deals with $178M.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by Swannie on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:49PM (#8051438)
SourceFire is a really small company by comparison to Cisco.
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