Cisco taking on HP...

I think it's going to be interesting in a good way. I like Cisco gear. I push it where possible.

I think the infrastructure Cisco has will be what makes it succeed. If they stick to VMs, blades or rack servers and SANs they should be fine and good competition to add to the market.

I'm a network engineer. If I get on the phone with Cisco I will have a replacement for a dead router on my doorstep usually within two hours. I hear the server guys taking two hours just getting through to the HP call centre in India then then another two hours getting their problem across and it goes downhill from there...