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Dec 27 2007   1:17PM GMT

Giancarlo Departs Cisco



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco, Charles Giancarlo, John Chambers

The odds on favorite being groomed to replace Cisco CEO John Chambers was Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo. However, Giancarlo apparently has other plans. He announced that effective December 31, 2007 he will be leaving Cisco to pursue other opportunities. Giancarlo was instrumental in creating a new collaborative leadership body, the Development Council, which will help to fill the void. Does Giancarlo’s abrupt departure signal anything deeper or more ominous going on at Cisco, or did he just get restless and decide to move on? It is hard to say, but so far it appears that he simply chose to move on. Read Key Cisco leader Giancarlo steps down for more details.

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Sep 13 2007   5:26PM GMT

Dissent In The ‘Unified’ Ranks



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco, John Chambers, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Unified Communications, Steve Ballmer

Less than a month ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers held a joint press conference announcing their intent to cooperate and collaborate more in a team effort to bring to market the kinds of unified communication technologies that consumers and enterprises need. Apparently they still have some work to do on being “team players” and sharing the sandbox nicely with each other. Continued »

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Aug 4 2007   9:16PM GMT

Cisco Keeps Linksys As A Separate Brand



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Networking, John Chambers, Linksys, Cisco

The San Jose Business Journal recently reported that Cisco CEO John Chambers had divulged Cisco’s intent to phase out the Linksys brand and market their home products as Cisco as well. A post on The Platform, the official Cisco blog site, however, refutes this. The statement on the blog post states “Linksys consumer and SMB products will continue to be marketed under the Linksys brand and co-exist in the market with Cisco branded connected home products over the near term.” It is not a complete 180 though. Their statement claims that they will market both Linksys and Cisco branded products to the home market and qualifies the timeframe as “near term”. It seems to leave the door open for phasing out the Linksys brand, but it won’t be next week.

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