Nothing is getting approved for HR or purchasing. I heard the word "crisis".
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Funny thing, when you mention MS Teams, is that we imported a number of people (mostly managers I believe, but engineer(s) as well) from MS. Although these were working on Office365, so not exactly the kind of cloud stuff we needed. At the same time, those that built Webex, left and built Zoom. That was well played :)
On top of that, now we have this guy, JP, as the head of the whole BU, who is more obsessed with his podcasts and his on-screen presence than our engineering.
The people leading webex all came from Symantec , so.. is it anything new that webex is going to die slowly ??
The question is..do you honestly believe we can compete with Ms teams in the long run or is our partnership with Google the last grasp we do ?
When COVID hit. WebEx was mainly focussed on external meetings, and teams was... Well chaotic at best. Now it is better.. but.. too little too late ?
Not a Spark of interest.
Collab's Money Too Tight To Mention...hey that was a catch song decades ago
Zoom ate Cisco's lunch. Only major media company still using WebEx is CNN.
Yeah replacing legacy on-prem products for new cloud more expensive i.e wbx c.c that customers will not buy does not seem the way to go.
Sunseting small/mid tyer on-prem products with no viable migration options except for overpriced cloud solutions for customers also not the way to go, especially when the cloud alternatives don't hold a candle in terms of quality for the on-prem alternatives
MS Teams are smashing it. Just face reality...
WebEx and app d are toast.
UCS is not a software product, but CR could convince a pension fund it is. That is why he is paid the big bucks... CR can sell Cisco stock to non-technical audiences.
UCS is a software product? Now that is a reality distortion field - but I don't believe CR is Steve Jobs. By the way, customers aren't using Intersight. The few that are do low level things like collecting sever inventory info. Since nobody was buying Intersight, Cisco is now making it mandatory - like DNA on switches.
UCS and Collab are good candidates for sale. Not core business. Eroding market share."
I disagree. UCS/Collab provide CR the ability to sell Cisco as a software company to pension funds and Wall Street.
Software, Security, and Cloud are the current buzzwords. We need products in those areas to convince the Ohio teacher's pension fund to invest in our stock. Doesn't matter if those products sell...
@dcr+1d55hef7 Agreed. Imagine if the R&D money was instead spent on stopping the core technology market share decline. Much bigger revenue impact.
UCS and Collab are good candidates for sale. Not core business. Eroding market share.
Funding, interviews, everything. Some hired recently. EU though, so maybe you couldn't see it in your region.
To be honest, I'm afraid of such expansion. Add all those acquisitions to head count as well, and I'm afraid future reductions will be really, really massive.
Are the open positions linked to funding? Cisco has been known to create reqs without funding to collect resumes.
Where did you hear word "crisis" ? In my org they are hiring like crazy. Haven't seen this number of open positions since I joined the company.
There is no money crisis at the moment in Collab. Crisis this org is experiencing is of a completely different nature. Leadership for starters. How many changes we saw at the top in last 7/8 years ?
Selling it to Google?