[71557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Systems to Purchase Procket Networks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Fri Jun 18 01:57:07 2004
In-Reply-To: <p06020407bcf7ee204ce3@[10.251.188.163]>
Cc: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:55:23 -0700
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
[Mass reply]
Correct, I'm currently with Verio, playing ISP.
Yes, I believe that this confirms that John thinks that engineers are
indeed
slaves. But I've known that for years.
Please disregard the "rock star" crapola. More hype that I don't
want...
I'm just an engineer, like you, but slightly older and more bruised.
Tony
On Jun 17, 2004, at 5:59 PM, John Curran wrote:
>
> 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/
>
