The Open Mainframe Project

Cisco servers are a rip-off as well. Not nearly as bad as mainframes. If you have a really small server closet or something you have to deal with then blade servers may make sense. But to try to use their systems in a large-scale capacity just means misappropriated funds.

Cisco networking equipment is still very relevant, but it's likely that white box manufacturers selling logo'd networking equipment to big OEMs will overtake Cisco gradually in the next decade or two.