In other news, the Cisco and E/// partnership is yielding thousands of dollars of incremental revenue for Cisco, has exposed competitive product and service overlaps creating mistrust on both sides, and has a retread SVP (reporting into an SVP) wasting our money and resources keeping this thing alive.
E/// has been a horrible "partner" full of passive aggressive second string muppets aimlessly running around the pitch. Can't wait until Chuck shuts this down.
Ericsson tried to pull a VMware. Partner, get joint engineering assistance in a space they are fat behind in, get joint projects learn to learn who the good AS people are to poach them, rip off all the best ideas for themselves, acquire Cisco targets from under Cisco's nose, then close all the APIs require for interop.
Except Ericsson engineers think they are smarter than Cisco engineers... so they didn't play ball and offered nothing in exchange for Cisco IP... Except /// account teams were too hungry for thier next meal to not get caught stealing from Cisco's plate, even when thier HQ told them off for not playing the long con... Except their services guys couldn't route thier way out of a wet paper bag, and didn't want to touch anything Juniper PS had been doing for them for years.
Ericsson partnership is reduced to just a resell partnership. They are now just another channel partners . $1B? I think alliance didnt even make $100M. I dont see any resources in CEC assigned to this alliance in Engineering or elsewhere.
What happened to our cloud offerings?
What happened to our analytics offerings?
What happened to our cable box investments?
What happened to our handheld video camera offerings?
It was a boondoggle right from the jump. What ever happened with the strategic partnerships with Apple and Microsoft? Any $ come out of those 'press releases'?
I used to have an E/// phone. Not something I want to remember
Wow....take a deep breath dude. You've got issues!