Wow. I just wrote my long response, and I considered adding a note about culture, but I'll leave it as a reply to you: Scott Weiss didn't just forget to put it

Wow. I just wrote my long response, and I considered adding a note about culture, but I'll leave it as a reply to you: Scott Weiss didn't just forget to put it in his blog post, he specifically didn't successfully implement a policy of adopting Cisco culture at the San Bruno office based on my later experiences there. The IronPorters were still called that (now 7 years later). The office had different perks, different beer bashes, and rarely knew people outside their project thus ignoring most of the BU and it's culture. I think you're completely correct, and it's a really hard thing to accomplish. He may have tried and failed, but I don't know as I wasn't there during acquisition.