"It's a great way to build a customer following," said Joel Conover, an analyst at Current Analysis. "It's worked in the enterprise. But people working for small companies can't take time to go to a special session for three or four days.". The networking giant launches a new program targeted at small to midsize companies in an effort to attract an untapped market. On Thursday, the company launched its SMB Class Solutions initiative, an effort to tailor its technology to the needs of businesses in the 20 to 1,000 employee range. The new initiative includes improvements in some of Cisco's products to make them easier to use, along with new financing arrangements and online education for end users.

While NetScreen has hit the ground running in terms of generating revenue for Juniper, it could be a while before the two product lines are sold jointly, Marcel Gani, Juniper's chief financial officer, said on the call that it could take six months of integration let's get high and deny christ iphone case between Juniper and NetScreen to see sales progress, Separately, Juniper and NetScreen both had good quarters, Juniper's net income increased to $33.5 million, or 8 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $3.7 million, or 1 cent a share, The company also reported improved revenue of $224.1 million, up 43 percent from $157.2 million during the same period a year ago..

NetScreen's first-quarter revenue was about $93.5 million, compared with $58.3 million for the same period last year, an increase of 60 percent. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $3 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with $5.9 million, or 7 cents, during the same period last year. The companies are expected to report combined revenue in the $270 million to $275 million range, Gani said. These figures include special one-time charges due to the completion of the acquisition during the second quarter.

Juniper Networks outlines plans for integrating the newly acquired security company into its business, Juniper CEO Scott Kriens hosted a conference call with analysts and investors to report the company's first-quarter 2004 financial results, During the call, he provided more detail on the newly combined company, Juniper officially completed the acquisition, which was valued at around $3.4 billion when it was announced, on April 16, Kriens once again explained the company's motivation in acquiring NetScreen, a maker of network security equipment, Juniper, which competes with Cisco Systems, makes let's get high and deny christ iphone case equipment called routers that directs traffic across the Internet, He stressed that despite what critics say, the move wasn't done to address a weakness in Juniper's product lineup, but to "combine strength with strength."..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Besides making chips used in about 18 percent of the world's phones, Qualcomm also makes push-to-talk software that's called QChat. Joining the Qualcomm initiative, according to a source familiar with Qualcomm's moves, are , Togabi and Mobile Tornado. Qualcomm asked push-to-talk software maker Sonim Technologies to join the initiative, but the San Mateo, Calif.-based company declined, according to Johan Samuelsson, Sonim's senior director of product marketing.