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RE: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Irwin Lazar)
Thu Jun 17 21:28:32 2004
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:28:00 -0600
From: "Irwin Lazar" <ILazar@burtongroup.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
FYI: Cnet just published an interview with him this morning entitled =
"routing's rock star"
see:
http://news.com.com/Routing%27s+rock+star/2008-1035_3-5236759.html?tag=3D=
nl
-----Original Message-----
From: John Curran [mailto:jcurran@istaff.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:00 PM
To: Wayne E. Bouchard
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...
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
>
>---
>Wayne Bouchard
>web@typo.org
>Network Dude
>http://www.typo.org/~web/
