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Cisco Distracted?: Page 2 of 3

Lags in a quarter when everyone else's results were strong
February 09, 2006
  • Former Brocade CEO Greg Reyes told BusinessWeek that Cisco was close to buying Brocade in late 2004 before an investigation into Brocade’s stock options accounting methods scared Cisco off. If true, that might indicate that Cisco execs aren’t all that impressed with their existing Fibre Channel products. Or perhaps they felt the best way to compete with Brocade was to get rid of it.
  • The old Andiamo gang of Mario Mazzola, Luca Cafiero, Prem Jain, and Soni Jiandani haven’t "retired" as Cisco announced last July. The crew that developed Cisco’s Fibre Channel switches moved on to a new venture, probably in competition with their former company. (See Andiamo Vets Go 'Nuova'.)

Maybe one or more of these developments will prompt Cisco CEO John Chambers to spend a little time on storage during his next earnings call.

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch

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