[VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

[Alex Balashov]

As you said, in this particular example, I really don't know what
impressive spectacle will take place if you hold Cisco's beer... it may
be one of those things where the kid says, "Look mom, watch this!" and
then something prosaic, underwhelming and anticlimactic not-happens...

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:12:38PM -0700, Carlos Alvarez wrote:

> Challenge:  How to take a company that hates its customers and sees greed
> and manipulation as a core principle, and make it worse?
> 
> Cisco:  Hold my beer!
> 
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:57:39AM -0700, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
> >
> > > where Cisco buys out a good company, let's say Meraki, turns it to
> > > crap,
> >
> > In this case, lots of assumptions there about the existing status of
> > what has been acquired, about the validity of the comparison.
> >
> > not_crap -> crap is a state transition made possible only when
> > initial_state != final_state, etc...
> >
> > But that's none of my business. [sips Lipton]
> >
> > -- Alex
> >
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