What I find fascinating is that this seems to be a regular facet of cisco's culture. Some employees leave
, start a start-up with access to Cisco's manufacturing/engineering resources, poach a bunch of employees from Cisco, then get bought back for huge sums of money a couple years later. As the article mentions, this must be tough on morale for the people that aren't picked to join the hot-new product-line. I use the term "leave" very lightly. Apparently, Mario, Luca and Jain's previous spin-ins: Andiamo and Nuova moved right across the street into buildings still owned by Cisco.