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Friday, June 12, 2009

Rumors rise that Cisco will buy Citrix; Cisco fighting back after Q1 share losses

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Speculation rises again that Cisco will buy Citrix

This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

Cisco has been quoted in the press saying it plans to be more aggressive in M&A activity in the second half of the year than in the first, and more aggressive this year than last. Given that it's sitting on $30 billion in cash and the current economy is depressing values, it's no wonder. Who will it buy? What about Citrix?

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Switch QoS: Queuing on the 2950 platforms
Dennis Hartmann, Cisco Unified Communications: The QoS SRND does a very good job of explaining the queuing configuration of the most popular switch platforms.

Compellent sees 53% increase in sales
Larry Chaffin, Putting Realism Into Your Network: Compellent topped the list of companies with the biggest increase in sales for Q1 from 2008 to 2009. I think this really proves to the CIO's around the country that they need to look at Compellent over EMC, HP, IBM and others.

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Avner Izhar, Cisco Knowledge Share: Cisco announced its top global and theater channel partners, naming 12 partners for their excellence and six for being tops in the theater market. Honorees were selected from more than 60,000 partners.

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