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Has Cisco bought any companies other than Linksys? Do you think they are going to buy more?

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July 27, 2009 02:51 AM

Cisco has historically bought lots of other companies to fill gaps in its technology portfolio. It had purchased 127 companies as of April 2008. It would be a huge break in tradition if they didn't continue buying more.
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July 27, 2009 10:57 AM

Yes, their strategy is to let small startups invent new technologies, buy them and then do a lot of marketing around those new technologies while integrating them into the Cisco portfolio.

It's a way of letting others take the risk as opposed to doing a lot of fundamental R&D themselves.

Many large companies do this nowadays, also in other domains (e.g. Pfizer in pharmaceuticals). Most of them do some own research as well, but as a whole they seem to be more of a financial group annex marketing company.

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