Chicago, IL – An anonymous spokesperson for Cisco Systems, an industry leader in networking equipment, indicated today that the company has plans to release a new Blame Router(TM) to the public by mid-2003. The hardware will supplant older, offline blame-shifting processes, increasing organizational efficiency by up to 50% and freeing up former blame-shifting personnel to take on tasks more appropriate to their organizations’ core competencies.

“Load Balancing in the Blame-Shifting world is critical,” said the spokesperson. “We want to take this a step beyond the standard corporate fail-over system, to allow a broader and healthier distribution of blame.”

The accompanying product, RetributionHub (TM), is still in development.