Cisco Mike Quinn  Cisco Academy  Cisco's Mike Quinn   Cisco is
being ridiculed by the media thanks to an an executive's vow to
hunt down an employee leaking emails.  Here's the story: An
employee leaked an email to a blogger that frequently writes
about Cisco, Brad Reese.  So Cisco vice president of services
Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, sent an email
bashing the person who leaked it, asking the person to resign,
admitting that the person probably won't and then saying that
person will become his "hobby."  Naturally, someone sent Quinn's
email to the same blogger, Brad Reese, and it didn't take long
for it to go viral from there.  The leaked emails are part of a
bigger firestorm Cisco has been facing over a bid it submitted
to the California State University system that was $100 million
more than the other guys.  The threatening email is awful but
the company is taking an undue amount of heat over it. GigaOM's
Stacey Higginbotham bashes Cisco, saying tongue-in-cheek,  "What
a delightful work en