When was the last time they made some great decision that really brought us any good?
Poor decision making comes at a tangible cost. It's not clear to me if it's their lack of vision or what, but they make some really bad business decisions. I'm also starting to think that the reason is that the results of their decisions are mostly felt only by the employees. It affects them the least.
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iop+1aN6BnLX Are you kidding? FMC is 15 year old software, terrible interface, dog slow, total dinosaur. And that is still the only real answer for Cisco Firewall management and log reporting.
In my time, OpenDNS (Umbrella) and Sourcefire were great decisions in the acquisition department. Sourcefire was an integration nightmare but things are actually good now. Customers are buying it and displacing Checkpoint, PAN and Fortinet (my experience).
Acquiring Webex and Jabber was an amazing strategic decision. Pushing out the WebEx leadership and replacing them with Cisco bureaucrats probably cost Cisco $150+ billion.
I would submit the last good decisions were made a few years prior to JC leaving. His last few years of decision making stunk and he was no better than the current field of clowns. Chuck has made bad worse, then adding MM and AB to the nearly incompetent has pushed them over the incompetent threshold. Nothing but catering to the EEOC crowd and meeting those numbers.