I;m not sure, why is this article in HN. The only thing I garner is, Cisco is famous for throwing zealous amount of money for companies (AppDynamics,Jasper,Mera

I;m not sure, why is this article in HN. The only thing I garner is, Cisco is famous for throwing zealous amount of money for companies (AppDynamics,Jasper,Meraki,Viptela,Webex,Jabber...) , instead of building them in-house.