Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys

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Posted by timothy on Monday December 17, 2012 @07:50AM 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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by pinfall ( 2430412 ) writes: on Monday December 17, 2012 @07:58AM (#42312833)

How's that cloudy, autoupdatey, monitorey thing workin for ya?

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Re:Good move. (Score:4, Funny)

by Sulphur ( 1548251 ) writes: on Monday December 17, 2012 @08:34AM (#42312967)

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?

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday December 17, 2012 @09:23AM (#42313217)

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Re:God knows what's wrong (Score:5, Funny)

by msauve ( 701917 ) writes: on Monday December 17, 2012 @09:43AM (#42313331)

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

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Re:Good move. (Score:5, Funny)

by mu51c10rd ( 187182 ) writes: on Monday December 17, 2012 @11:24AM (#42314107)

A good quality introduction into managed switches
So...a gateway drug...?

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