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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)
CSCO 71.07-0.1%Nov 6 3:59 PM EST

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To: Elroy who wrote (66768)12/22/2004 8:47:14 AM
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Overseas tech firms to lead '05 growth
marketwatch.com

"Going forward, our competitors will come at us primarily from the Asian marketplace," Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers told a gathering of analysts and investors in early December.

But it's not primarily a fear of unauthorized knock-offs that have U.S. tech firms taking notice. Aided by a deep pool of technical talent -- India and China are churning out more than 10 times as many engineers as the U.S. every year - young firms in those countries are competing and winning on a level playing field.

"The entrepreneurial genie is out of the bottle in China," said Richard Kramlich, a partner with the Menlo Park venture firm New Enterprise Associates, who was among a group of 25 top U.S. venture capitalists to visit China this summer.

"You'd have to be a fool not to recognize it," said Kramlich, whose firm had eight of the companies it invested in complete IPOs in 2004.
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