LAS VEGAS--Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers may not like to say so, but his old friends and partners at Microsoft are quickly becoming his competitors.
A few hours after delivering a keynote address at Cisco's annual Networkers user conference here last week, Chambers, a smooth-talking West Virginia native, sat down with about a dozen reporters in a small conference room at the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center. He took off his blue suit jacket, cracked open a can of Diet Coke and parried questions with the best of them, particularly when it came to the folks in Redmond, Wash..
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