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		rmk on July 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs That's not really true. They bought SourceFire last year for a few billion.

incision on July 17, 2014 | [–]

>'That's not really true.'

Sure it is, there just happen to be exceptions.

Of the 21 years and 136 Cisco acquisitions with prices on Wikipedia, 14 come in over $1B. The average price overall is $530M, and the average price excluding >$1B deals with $178M.

Swannie on July 18, 2014 | [–]

SourceFire is a really small company by comparison to Cisco.

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