Its unlikely hell be able to devote as much time to Andiamo now, says an ex-Cisco VP who used to work closely with Mazzola. Buck Gee, formerly with Com21 Inc. (Nasdaq: CMTO), has been named COO of Andiamo until a new boss is found, the source said.
Personnel issues aside, the restructuring raises some interesting questions about how Cisco will maintain credibility with each of these sectors of the market, given that it wont be focusing on them independently anymore.
Analysts say the blurring is intended to disguise where its enterprise business ends and its service provider business begins, to cover up measly results in the service provider market.
Still, there are some advantages to not having its technology split between multiple lines of business. For example, having all the storage products in one group means that decisions on interoperability and what technologies to pursue, etc., are taken in one place rather than being made independently.
So, Ciscos age-old problem of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, might actually get better under this new structure. Then again, porcine quadrupeds might take to the sky.
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