Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread Rich Adamson
Also, shortly after cisco purchased linksys (and with a little journalistic help), many of the past problems with their software finally 'surfaced' and were addressed. Given cisco's long history (internally) to standards and quality, I'd have to take some sizable bets on product improvement as

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread David Boyd
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:22 -0400, Steven Kalcevich wrote: I think its a win win situation. Cisco has tons of money to throw at them to get a better product with more features. I dont believe they would aquire them and not put money in them to make a better product. I guess the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread Andres
In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source community, then they may well buy the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread Guillermo Salas M
Andres wrote: In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source community, then they may

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread Brian Leyton
David Boyd wrote: In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-28 Thread Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
Brian Leyton wrote: Well, I tend to think that Sipura's products will come out ahead here. For example, when Cisco bought Linksys, one might have expected them to cripple or shut them down - after all, Linksys makes routers, and Cisco makes routers. Obviously that didn't happen, because Cisco

[Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-27 Thread MF Hulber
Have you seen this story? Cisco definitely wants to own the VoIP market. I wonder what effect this will have on Sipura products. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nf/20050427/bs_nf/33554 MARK. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-27 Thread Isamar Maia
I guess the prices will go up like a rocket Isamar On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, MF Hulber wrote: Have you seen this story? Cisco definitely wants to own the VoIP market. I wonder what effect this will have on Sipura products.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-27 Thread Joseph
We can always buy from China, not to mention some of they will support IAX2 protocol. #Joseph On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:54 +0900, Isamar Maia wrote: I guess the prices will go up like a rocket Isamar On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, MF Hulber wrote: Have you seen this story? Cisco

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-27 Thread Henry Devito
- Original Message - From: Isamar Maia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura I guess the prices will go up like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

2005-04-27 Thread Steven Kalcevich
I think its a win win situation. Cisco has tons of money to throw at them to get a better product with more features. I dont believe they would aquire them and not put money in them to make a better product. I guess the prices will go up like a rocket Not necessarily, When Cisco