Biding time Worthy of mention is that Cisco's opening bid was about US $ 180 million. Cisco's calculation was based on multiplying US $ 3.5 million by the number of engineers to come up with a figure representing the total value of the company.
值得一提的是，最初兩方談判時，思科開出的購併價格約是 1.8 億美元，思科計算的方式是以工程技術人員的人數乘上 350 萬美元，就代表這家公司的價值。