Cisco's Chambers gets $2 million payout despite bad year Cisco Systems gave Chairman and CEO John Chambers a "discretionary incentive payment" of more than US$2 million for the company's 2009 fiscal year, despite the fact that net income fell nearly 24 percent from the previous year on sales that were down almost 9 percent. Microsoft Promises IIS Bug Patch Microsoft said it is working on a patch for a bug in its popular Web server software, but experts say it's unlikely that the company will field a fix fast enough to make this week's regular Patch Tuesday release. Can you see John Chambers directing Cisco to buy Alcatel-Lucent? I always find it amusing when desperate Wall Street investment bankers float takeover rumors in the hope of putting lackluster performing companies into play while also simultaneously inflating the laggard company's stock price. My case in point? Alcatel-Lucent! F5 clobbers Cisco in application delivery controller market share Infonetics Research Enterprise Voice & Data Analyst Matthias Machowinski released this week his 2Q09 Ethernet Switches and Application Delivery Controllers report. The report revealed that F5's application delivery controller revenue share increased while Cisco's decreased in 2Q09, giving F5 the clear lead two quarters in a row. Google's email outage and the fallacy of 3 nine's Google and Hotmail promise 99.9% availability (also known "3 nines"). As good as that sounds, 3 nines doesn't matter during that other one-tenth of one percent. Luxuries for Leaders: How IT Chiefs Reward Themselves Ask a group of IT leaders how they like to reward themselves, and you'll be hard-pressed to find one person who names something extravagant. Sun Server Sales Crashing as Oracle Deal Stumbles Server sales plunged in the second quarter, with Sun faring the worst as its deal to be acquired by Oracle continues to experience delays. Federal IT strategy, hope over reality Well, that ugly, ill-conceived bill from Senator Rockefeller, now called the "Cybersecurity Act of 2009", has reappeared and if it passes someone is going to get saddled with the job of making it happen. Who will be the lucky guy and can he succeed? I Remember When I Used a Public IPv4 Address I don't know about you, but it has been a long time since my laptop was assigned a public IPv4 address. Thieves rob Apple Store, grab over $30,000 worth of Apple products in just 31 seconds In a well planned out heist, thieves recently smashed through the window of an Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey, and made off with a boatload of Apple products in just 31 seconds. Network Woes? Hate the iPhone, Not AT&T Now that AT&T has finally greenlit MMS for the iPhone, maybe it's time we gave the company a break. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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