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Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys

Posted by timothy on from the buy-and-revive-the-linux-ones dept.

New submitter drdread66 writes "Cisco seems to be giving up on another technology acquisition. Hot on the heels of a full writedown for shuttering Flip Video, Cisco is now looking at another potentially huge loss from unloading Linksys."

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  1. Re:Good move. by Sulphur · · Score: 3, Funny

    It wouldn't have been such a problem if they'd kept calling things Linksys, and not put the Cisco Systems logo all over everything. Then releasing all the Linksys kit as Cisco SMB - that was just crazy.

    A route to disaster?

  2. God knows what's wrong by Colourspace · · Score: 3, Funny

    with my reading-fu, but I SWEAR I first parsed that as 'Cisco rumoured to be selling Kidneys'.. I mean, they really stooped low this time..

    1. Re:God knows what's wrong by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's silly. Cisco certainly has warehouses full of arms and legs, which is what they charge their enterprise customers, but kidneys? No.

      --
      "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  3. Re:Good move. by mu51c10rd · · Score: 5, Funny

    A good quality introduction into managed switches

    So...a gateway drug...?