Cisco spends millions on becoming household name
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| Cisco Systems, the largest maker of Internet networking equipment in
| the world, kicked off a $100 million campaign on Thursday to make its
| brand a household name.
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Oracle maintains quick pace for takeovers, exec says
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| Oracle will likely keep targeting smaller companies as it seeks to keep up
| a quick pace of takeovers, although bigger deals are still on the table,
| an Oracle executive said on Thursday.
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...And they say that there's plenty of room for competition. It's far beyond
a uphill struggle. The barriers to entry are enormous and they are either
squashed by takeovers (elimination of competition), outmuscling of
competition through imitation and brute force (or corruption of standards),
or public brainwash and half-truths. Luckily, the European Commission is
looking into that.
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