Cisco to Acquire Perfigo

MisterFuRR writes "Looks like Cisco is going to acquire Perfigo. Perfigo is a developer of packaged network access control solutions that provide endpoint policy analysis, compliance, and access enforcement capabilities. I can just see it now: Linksys routers with stickers that say 'Perfigo Ready.'"

Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

...if you can't innovate, just acquire and extort. It worked for Microsoft.

A rich ecosystem?

[e9th]

[Cisco] NAC provides a rich ecosystem...

You know, that's the worst abuse of the word ecosystem I've ever heard.

I guess *BSD is the spotted owl here.

I see...

[Anonymous Coward]

'Perfigo is a developer of packaged network access control solutions that provide endpoint policy analysis, compliance, and access enforcement capabilities.'

It's all so clear to me now.

Re: I see...

[Black Parrot]

> > 'Perfigo is a developer of packaged network access control solutions that provide endpoint policy analysis, compliance, and access enforcement capabilities.'

> It's all so clear to me now.

Unfortunately your PHB will feel like he has to pretend to understand it, because all the other PHBs are pretending they understand it and yours doesn't want to look like the only person in the room who doesn't get it. So he'll bring home a million dollars worth and tell you to install it.

Slashdot challange!

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Can we /. Cisco?

If we manage to do it, I will be very impressed.

All I see...

[eingram]

I can just see it now: Linksys routers with stickers that say 'Perfigo Ready.'"

I just see more open WAPs myself. =D

Re:Is everyone blind or something?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dont worry prob just that the launguage is changing again and the dictionary just has not been updated yet.

Thanks!

[ljavelin]

Thanks for the nice press release. Notice how the Perfigo [perfigo.com] website didn't make the posting - Maybe Perfigo was in fear that it'd stuffer from the /. effect?

Re:Slashdot challange!

[_Hellfire_]

I doubt it - they've got more bandwidth than god.

Re:Is everyone blind or something?

[numatrix]

You can't understand it? It's quite simple. See, there's this website called Slashdot. What happens there is four or five people post the same story to the site. The shortest, most incoherent submission is further mangled by one of the editors and posted to the chosen (by their wallets) ones for an early read. These readers in turn notify the appropriate editor of half a dozen changes, suggestions, and fixes, all of which are ignored when it is posted to rest of the site.

Then some smart aleck in the comments doesn't have anything meaningful to say about the story itself, so he posts an amazed comment about how such an obvious typo could make it through the ever so thorough vetting process.

This is of course followed up by an even worse smart aleck who 'educates' the previous user and the entire thread is subsequently modded as not-funny and off-topic and hopefully removed from the visible comments for most users.

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here. Oh yeah; almost forgot. You're supposed to make a spelling typo in your spelling correction so that other people can ridicule you too. All part of the fun.

Re:Wow...

[bcreane]

Yea, I found the article boring when scanning superficially. But after reading the perfigo site faq [perfigo.com], its clear there's a potential for "synergy" between cisco and perfigo's products. It may be one of those [very] rare acquisitions that adds value for investors (and customers).

Re:Please discontinue Perfigo's products

[I kan Spl]

Not only that, the perfigo boxes can be horribly confused, fairly easily.

In one instance the SecureSmart server was convinced that my Linux laptop was infected with a doze virus...