[bastard_op]

That is rather sad, Cisco will ruin another good product bringing it into their mediocre product lines to be marginalized to nothing over time. I've had friends that have come into Cisco through acquisition, they invariably last long enough to vest enough of their stock options and get the hell out as quick as possible, almost always 2 years on the dot. I bet Cisco HR can track that as a reliable metric.

Now the purchase of anyone by Cisco simply signals a death knell for them. Last words generally heard now are "they used to be cool".