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> all new deployments must be on Openstack you have my sympathies
I tried to use OpenStack 4 years in our new PaaS product. I ended up pulling it and using the regular, well baked tools built into our managed hardware. I see much hasn't changed in those intervening years.
Source?
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A much smaller company could definitely create these very high end switches and routers, with a business and support model unlike that of Cisco.
And they won't be trusted or used by large carriers for serious POPs for many years. New manufacturers have tried to show up on the market and sell routers that are designed to be highly redundant and offer a full suite of layer 3 feature set to handle full global v6/v6 routing tables. They've either failed or been acquired. Major ISP backbones are very risk averse, when you're trying to run a six nines availability…
That is certainly not the end of such endeavours. Cisco can't buy ALL of them forever.
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Low mobility? Immigrants on H1-B can change employers.
I can assure you most H1-B employees would be scared to mess with a good thing. Unless they are well experienced with H1-B or their job offer is quality w/ promises of an immigration lawyer taking care of it.
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What languages did they work in?
The vast majority were Java developers. I always felt bad about it as I never passed a single one of them during my time working there and interviewing them. They were in such a shitty position but at the same time I only ever had one of them actually able to talk through how to code something (and even that person said they only "know how to do a for loop in theory" which I don't understand but I digress). I'm fine…
For small installations, their EdgeMax / EdgeRouters are great and faster than Cisco.
It think many of Cisco's products are becoming more generic, and there's more competition.
Let's just say the average salary is 70k which is very conservative. That is 14k * 70k annually lost from the local community, a grand total of 980M or let's just say 1 billion annually. Looking for another job when there are massive cuts like this also degrades the salary they accept on their next job because of the competition. I wish companies, if possible, throttled layoffs a bit more instead of large chunks like…
I understand this isn't a good situation for the community, but what about the other side? That $980m isn't just disappearing into thin air. CSCO will use it to refocus their efforts into more valuable services, which by itself will entail some level of hiring & investment, and if successful, they'll hire & invest more. If you think this is an optimistic perspective, consider the alternative...CSCO continues employin…
http://www.recode.net/2016/2/10/11587764/cisco-soars-on-15-b...
Let's just say the average salary is 70k which is very conservative. That is 14k * 70k annually lost from the local community, a grand total of 980M or let's just say 1 billion annually. Looking for another job when there are massive cuts like this also degrades the salary they accept on their next job because of the competition. I wish companies, if possible, throttled layoffs a bit more instead of large chunks like…
I understand this isn't a good situation for the community, but what about the other side? That $980m isn't just disappearing into thin air. CSCO will use it to refocus their efforts into more valuable services, which by itself will entail some level of hiring & investment, and if successful, they'll hire & invest more. If you think this is an optimistic perspective, consider the alternative...CSCO continues employin…
It seems more likely they'll keep the savings as a quick fix to make them look better to investors. As noted in the article, these rumors are coming out close to announcing their fourth-quarter results.
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No I don't mean that at all. I work at a place where we surgically remove deadwood, keep valuable people & tech. Those who have value feel valued. As an aside I was with 3Com when they tried to go toe to toe with Cisco. 3Com did very much the same thing.. one major event was even called 'Catapult', senior management's intent was to launch the company forward, workers looked on with incredulity as over half the workfo…
>I work at a place where we surgically remove deadwood, keep valuable people & tech. Those who have value feel valued. I smell coolaid.
There's never 'layoffs' and never ever entire groups let go. Just regular PIPs for people who you think... 'no great loss'
I'll admit, doesn't scale to cisco though.
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And they keep that money in their pocket, do they? On a personal level, this sucks for those Cisco employees. But it's weird that the land of disruption advocates "wasting" money on unneeded labour. There isn't much sympathy for the taxi drivers Uber is harming.
Bad comparison. Taxi drivers losing business to Uber can easily go to work for Uber themselves (in fact, many of them have done exactly that). Someone being laid off by a company like Cisco can't just go work for the competition that easily; it wasn't a simple situation of a better competitor coming along that caused these Cisco employees to lose their jobs. If anything, it's because the work was outsourced offshore,…
The lower barrier to entry of Uber means that there are more people competing for those taxi jobs, like people who can do it part-time. How many taxi-drivers did you know pre-Uber? I knew zero. Now I know multiple people who are, basically, taxi-drivers. (I'm making no claim as to whether this development is good or bad, it just is).
So yeah, they can "easily go work for Uber" as a contractor for less money. I imagine that the Cisco workers could do the same if they wanted to be contractors for less money.
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And they keep that money in their pocket, do they? On a personal level, this sucks for those Cisco employees. But it's weird that the land of disruption advocates "wasting" money on unneeded labour. There isn't much sympathy for the taxi drivers Uber is harming.
They keep it in an offshore tax haven, often.
I guess that depends on what you consider often. Because the money outside of tax-havens "doing work"in the economy is vastly greater than money hidden in tax-havens.