So, if what’s good for Cisco Systems Inc. is now good for the country, why isn’t it good for the San Francisco Giants? San Jose’s data networking goliath, which replaced General Motors Corp. on the Dow Jones industrial average, suffered a rare defeat when it lost out on a bid to install a $1 million Internet phone system at AT&T Park. Instead, a comparative pipsqueak of a company, ShoreTel Inc. of Sunnyvale, got the job. A key selling point for Giants Chief Information Officer Bill Schlough, apart from what he said was ShoreTel’s switch-based architecture: “We won’t be a small fish in a big pond.”
By Andrew Ross
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