WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions

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Cisco's moving slowly, but surely.

Taken on individual technologies, Cisco is not always the best. There's almost always a smaller competitor offering a product that is either better or less expensive. Not a huge gap, but a small gap.

But what sets Cisco out of the ordinary is its position in all technologies at the same time. From the same vendor you can get VoIP, collaboration, network infrastructure, consulting, storage, data center, web acceleration, security and you name it. And a technical support you won't find anywhere else in the industry.

For me, dealing with many small vendors ultimately leads to higher costs and less features due to 'incompatibilities' between them. That is an incredible advantage to have a one-stop shop for all your needs.

I don't believe in "partnerships" between giants such as IBM, HP, Lucent, and so on. Big corporations like that have lots of internal communication problem, how would like them to communicate effectively with another giant sharing the same problems? I believe this is plain marketing pitch.

I agree with the points you raise, but still believe that Cisco is a wonderful company to do business with. They might be slow moving at times, but the solutions are often well worth the wait.

Posted by: w00pla   Posted on: 07/03/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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