TechIQ’s The VAR Guy has some interesting tidbits from the Cisco Partners Summit earlier week, including some bullish statements from John Chambers.
Reporting from Chambers’ press conference at the summit, the VAR Guy writes that Chambers said: “Microsoft has given us a three-year lead. And we’ve never lost a game when we’ve had a three-year lead… It’s a battle we fully intend to win.”
The VAR Guy writes: “Chambers certainly sounds confident. But let’s be careful here, John: Novell had 65 percent market share before Microsoft came along and destroyed the NetWare business.”
Also, Chambers conceded past mistakes, writes the VAR Guy, including Cisco’s failure to move early into the VoIP market. “We thought a phone switch out was a PC switch out but it’s a process change … we underestimated this.”
The VAR Guy also reports on Chambers’ comments about Apple, with which Cisco is working on unified communications.
