Chambers: What keeps Cisco competitive?

October 12, 2006, 8:03pm PDT | Length: 00:05:06
With all the buzz around Web 2.0, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers talks about the value of being, essentially, a plumber. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Gartner analysts Tom Bittman and David Willis question Chambers about getting customers to eschew standards in lieu of Cisco's top-to-bottom proprietary stacks.
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