Space to announce layoffs and any details you want to provide.
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Some of what you said is correct (I didn't want to write a 10 page answer) but you're wrong on a few points. DEC and Compaq were financially done. I was there. They don't live on under HPE at all. And DEC and Compaq were pretty much 1/2 in major markets not long before they were dead.
My point is correct - thinking that Cisco can survive in its present form is fanciful.
Yeah, but Univac, Honeywell (computers), NCR (computers), Burroughs, CDC, DEC, Wang, DG, Prime, Sun, E&S, Silicon Graphics, Tandem, Compaq, Cray, and hundreds more are not.
Burroughs joined Sperry Univac to form Unisys. DEC, SGI, Tandem, Compaq, and Cray are part of HPE. Honeywell has a wide range of businesses and has hard parts acquired while acquring others and Honeywell Quantum Solutions just merged with Cambridge Quantum to form Quantinuum. NCR was eaten and sp-t out by AT&T and they still operate as NCR Voyix producing hardware, software and professional services. Part of DG survived for 12 years under EMC. Bits of Sun live on under Oracle. Bits of Wang trundled through Gentronics and CompuCom from 1999 to 2014. The core of E&S was sold to Rockwell Collins. Even fragments of CDC were split up and sold off.
That leaves Prime as the only company in the list that seems to have died on its own. Many of the rest were never number one in a major market and many more lost money for ages, and the nature of their businesses fundamentally changed. Cisco is half networking and IPv6 is a cluster---- after 28 years so I'm not seeing IPv4 being completely replaced any time soon. I can see this part gliding downwards for ages.
Someone else will have to comment on the other half of the company. The old Jack Welch rule of being number one or two in each industry may not apply to WebEx, servers, telephones, security, network management, etc... so I don't know how fast these could hit a wall.
Yeah, but Univac, Honeywell (computers), NCR (computers), Burroughs, CDC, DEC, Wang, DG, Prime, Sun, E&S, Silicon Graphics, Tandem, Compaq, Cray, and hundreds more are not.
GE. Unisys, Xerox, Eastman Kodak and others are still out there and I'd bet Cisco will still be an ongoing concern in 2034. They might not have layoffs that May but my money is on them having layoffs in 2034.
Seal that date in a time capsule. Love to read the news. And relive the memories.
Cisco.....WHO?!?!
2034? You are lost in space.
- .34. See you then!
Typical Cisco grunts jokes are over their head
I think this was supposed to be a joke @gzh+1svuOv7c
"2034" layoff...?
Cisco will be on life support or already donezo.
Search the threads. It's amazing that you are even employed.