When a couple of professors worked out how to link up disparate networks, they knew they were onto a winner. And with the help of a credit card to fund their ambitions, Cisco was born.
In the same way that it is hard to imagine football hardmen Vinnie Jones and Neil Ruddock were vulnerable children once upon a time, it is equally difficult to imagine that a monolithic company suc...
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