[71552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Jun 17 21:07:46 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040618004630.GA39873@typo.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:59:57 -0700
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I believe that Tony has escaped that fate... (although the phrasing of the
press release could lead one to believe that the engineering team aren't
really people, but some form of property that was "sold" to Cisco ;-)
/John
At 5:46 PM -0700 6/17/04, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
>So does this mean that Tony Li now works for Mr. Chambers again? :-)
>
>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:21:58PM -0700, John Curran wrote:
>>
>> "SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2004 - Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced a definitive agreement to purchase the intellectual property, a majority of the engineering team and select assets from privately-held Procket Networks, Inc. of Milpitas, Calif. Procket Networks is a developer of concurrent services routers and has expertise in silicon and software development. This purchase will add a rich intellectual property portfolio and a team of proven silicon and software architects to Cisco's industry leading routing technology and products."
>>
>> <http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2004/corp_061704.html>
>>
>> FYI,
>> /John
>
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>Wayne Bouchard
>web@typo.org
>Network Dude
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