You heard it here first. Cisco will merge with Microsoft within the next 6 months.
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Cisco is merging with Microsoft corporation. I wonder why
This isn’t such a bonkers idea. Microsoft + Cisco merger would offer the ultimate in an enterprise bundle. Software and compute abs cloud and network all together. It’s a brilliant idea. It is probably the best potential deal for cisco shareholders in the reasonable future too.
Oh gosh I hope not. I just went to MSFT to get away from Cisco. That would just be terrible news.
What a laughable rumor. Please. Now this would be more believable if it were IBM. At least one could say they are buying a customer base. But as for Microsoft - no fit or synergy whatsoever!
this is dumbest post I have ever seen.
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You could have ended your sentence at ‘nothing’
There is almost nothing, outside some of the security software products, in Cisco that MSFT would want.
Sadly,
Never going to happen
I'd add Apple, Nintendo, Netflix, and Tesla to the list of comeback stories that were able to survive.
- Netflix struggled in the transition to digital streaming
- Apple replaced Steve Jobs with a Pepsi executive
- Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy as they attempted to scale their business
- Nintendo was one bad console release away from bankruptcy in 2006
So Chuck would become the CEO of the new combined MSFT/CSCO company? If yes, I would buy shares in the new company, NOT.
I have seen many companies go through the successful engineering innovation, market dominance, mba non-techy takeover, declining market share, exec plundering, managed decline, demise. This is Cisco's current trajectory. Microsoft is the only large company that started on this path and successfully reversed it.
Cisco is just a cash machine and a brand name. Other than finance and marketing, it doesn't have many core competencies any more. Engineering has become very weak. Most new products and solutions come from outside acquisitions. Product maintenance is increasingly performed by low quality, hired guns. Cisco's sales and support have been mostly outsourced to partners. More than 80% of sales come from partners. TAC is shrinking quickly and no longer delivers quality service.
Why would Microsoft buy Cisco? It painfully learned not to do this from the Nokia acquisition. Cisco is more likely to be acquired by Private Equity making execs even richer on exit. PE will strip expenses to the minimum, milk the brand and cash stream profitably managing the decline to oblivion.
There is almost nothing, outside some of the security software products, in Cisco that MSFT would want.
That would be so bad. Cisco culture would ruin Microsoft.
Microsoft would be brain dead if they acquired Cisco.