BTW, I love the monikers on this list.
Anyhow, my impression comes from sales in our discussion of relative
merits of Foundry and Extreme's offerings. Instead of offering insight, I
was deluged with FUD. What I was looking for was why an end-to-end cisco
solution was a better fit.
YMMV, of course.
--- ramius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't get where the "bitter" in the competition comes from. That's
> business. The major difference between Cisco and Microsoft is what is
> done
> with the aqusitions afterwards. Microsoft uses the "you will be
> assimilated"
> strategy, changing the ways that the bought companies work to conform to
> Microsoft and even changing the way they do "whatever is is they're
> doing."
> Cisco on the other hand, lets the aquistions keep doing what they know
> how
> to do--that's what made them successful in the first place. There is
> definitely a more hands-off approach.
> ramius
>
>
> "anthony kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I just found it curious. If you look at these market leaders, you'll
> > find an eerie similarity in how their product lines incorporate
> > technology acquisition. The ability to subsume heterogeneous
> > technologies may indicate why these two have done so well (and one
> > might argue, the fear of dethronement as a cause to why they react so
> > bitterly to competition):
> >
> > For a full rundown of cisco acquisitions visit
> > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/acquisition/summarylist.html
> >
> > For a full rundown of microsoft acquisitions visit
> > http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/yrcatalog.shtml
> > (microsoft doesn't seem to have their acquisition summary anywhere I
> > could find on their site.)
> >
> > One could make similar statements about any other $BIG_COMPANY but I
> > believe there is no coincidence that market leaders succeed because
> > they can adapt new technologies and incorporate them successfully in
> > their product line.
> >
> > Before people start leaping off the deep end of the Rational pool, I
> am
> > speaking as a cisco fan, not as a microsoft one.
> >
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