It doesn't look like the market liked the idea. Cisco stock went down. I think it sounds like a great idea! But don't take market advice from me. I bought pets.com. :-) The only thing I have to show for it is a cool sweatshirt and sock puppet.
Priscilla CCIE #6746 wrote: > > I used to work in a high visibility position within Cisco and > John Chambers > told me he was not interested in entering this market space in > any way shape > or form. With that said, we had developed several products, > such as a low > end broadband router with built in firewall and vpn access, and > low dollar > wireless access points. The router is nice, and I have several > of them but > the wireless products really sucked and he threw the R&D > dollars out the > door, and never marketed the products and pretty much gave the > products away > to employees really cheap. Now to see this after throwing all > that money > away surprises me, plus this is the first time I have seen John > contradict > himself. Now I just hope they "Ciscoize" the products and our > home wireless > networks will get much cheaper :) > > d- > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > Elijah Savage > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why did Cisco do this? Off Topic [7:65834] > > Cisco buys Linksys. > > http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/?story=NewsStory/BW/20030320/a > 5141_1048177983.var&p=CSCO > > > -- > "BSD is for people who love Unix - > Linux is for people who hate Microsoft" > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=66050&t=65834 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
