Farewell to Scott Kriens of Juniper
As you have likely already seen, there is a new CEO at Juniper. Scott Kriens is stepping down (up?) as CEO and becoming chairman of the company. Kevin Johnson is leaving Microsoft after 16 years to become CEO of Juniper. As you may or may not know, Cisco and Juniper haven’t been the best of friends over the years. They are just down the road from Cisco headquarters, but we don’t go out for lunch all that often. However, they have been one of our very good competitors and I am sure this will continue.
At Cisco, we LOVE competition. It drives us. It makes us better. It helps us keep that Groveian “healthy paranoia” that someone is always out to get us. Juniper IS out to get us. We respect that. We respect that, because it is is Cisco customers who ultimately benefit by this and other competition. They get more features, faster speeds and feeds, higher quality of service, better and better support, better security, more mobility, etc. So, I salute Mr. Kriens for his leadership these past years and wish him well in his new role as chairman and I welcome Mr. Johnson as the new CEO at Juniper.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 04:19PM PST
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