BTW, one never seems to hear much out of Sun Microsystems these days, either. *cough*
Sun Micro simply priced themselves out of the market and out of business. Same with Silicon Graphics. They were great systems, but they were mega expensive and a basic cost benefit analysis pointed straight to the Windows/Intel.
You know what Cisco’s response will be.
Go to Washington and throw some money around in order to get the clowns to pass some new laws and regulations that will cripple their competition.
You can be sure that 14,000 H1-Bs will remain at Cisco.
The question is, how long will it be before Cisco is demanding more H1-B visas, due to the “Talent Shortage.”