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This. (At the risk of getting down voted) Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company. Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being gene
by ashwinaj 10y ago
This.
(At the risk of getting down voted)
Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company. Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being generous) there is absolutely no innovation or drive to build new products. It's a terrible place to work if you are an engineer with aspirations to tackle engineering challenges.
- signa11 10y ago> Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company. > Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being generous) > there is absolutely no innovation or drive > to build new products. this is _exactly_ right. for example, nick-feamster (formerly gatech, and now at princeton) hosted a google hangout with nick-mckeown (stanford) as part of his sdn mooc on coursera. the hangout video is approx. an hour long, and is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXezfJsqso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXezfJsqso initial 15-20 minutes of this video describes the experience of these n/w researchers (mckeown, cassado etc) when they presented their (sdn) idea to execs at csco, their (exec's) rejection of the said idea, which indicating to them (the researchers) that it (the idea) passed the so called 'idea-smell-test' :) if you have time to spare, watch it !
- zump 10y agoWhat is wrong with your punctuation?
- sah2ed 10y agoPerhaps s/he is on mobile.
- peterwwillis 10y ago"they"
- bgilroy26 10y agoSome people speak with a lot of parentheticals. We don't need speech to be a monoculture for people to understand one another.
- pc86 10y agoNothing wrong with the parentheses, I find myself doing that a lot as well. The issue is that the majority of the parenthetical statements are not useful information and not necessary to the point they are trying to make. That compared with seemingly nonsensical abbreviation and overall lack of coherent punctuation makes it an experience to read.
- bllguo 10y agoI don't see how disliking that poster's writing style translates into advocacy for a speech "monoculture."
- bgilroy26 10y agoI read the comment above as disapproving of the all of the parentheses in the gp post. If you remove the posts from people who write that way from the total we are closer to a monoculture. The difference between having one fewer way of writing and literally having one way of writing is the size of the rhetorical exaggeration in my comment
- eip 10y agoLisper?
- eating_ice 10y agoShe might be a dyslexic, twelve year old whose first language is not English, has only one hand and is using a mobile. On the other hand....
- ohnomrbill 10y agoOut of curiosity, what do the acronyms "sdn" and "n/w" stand for?
- techstrategist 10y agoSoftware defined networking, and likely just network(ing) I guess?
- vanessa98 10y agoAlso, see the reactions from companies with big datacenters who have had to internally evolve off Big Netgear in a similar fashion to moving off Big Iron years before: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/networking-the-last-bastion-of-mainframe-computing/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/networking-the-last... http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/datacenter-networks-are-in-my-way/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/datacenter-networks...
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