Candidly - their switches in my experience are garbage. They aren't making money, and they know they can't beat Cisco with a traditional approach. If I had to

Candidly - their switches in my experience are garbage. They aren't making money, and they know they can't beat Cisco with a traditional approach. If I had to guess they're hoping that opening things up will make them the vendor of choice for enterprises looking to mimic Google/Facebook. This feels like a hail mary with the future of their presence in the network switching space to me.