Hi Richard,
Shareholder sentiment is just as valuable to other shareholders as
just an occasional remark or two, from someone such as yourself, who has as much insight in this company as you have shown in the past.
I appreciate your posts but lately you seem to have chosen not to share it with others.
That one person, that was made an example of by the owner's of this thread, has had a very positive effect on the tone and content of the average post, since. It's even has enabled a few to disagree about
issues in a more civil manner. Also by pointing out how one's use of
words is/can and does provoke others into passionate responses has even had a moderating effect on those that ordinarily would just criticize someone just to be provocative. Our technical people that we have counted on have chosen to move on. The person that was disciplined for the use of profanity has returned and made many invaluable technical posts that was sorely needed when our company's stock performance has taken the steepest decline (not including the cabot affair) since 1995.
I will agree that if one would superimpose many other companies stock
performance during this time it does seem to be a sector problem.
This does not however give me comfort. One important reason "a Cisco" hasn't taken as hard a hit is IMHO due to ITS NAME RECOGNITION. Our company's management has repeatedly shown it feels that name recognition is of little value.
Please feel free to let me know where you may disagree with this post
as I am by no means a well informed shareholder as I might like and I come here to get valuable information about our company that I have not been able to get anywhare else. i.e. SEC FILINGS, company prospecti, professional analysts, paid news services, Reuter's fee based, internet, etc., Trade magazines, consumer computer magazines(By the way our competitors feel important enough to advertize in) and by reading Mickey Spillane Winn's quick course in WDM and Gigabit technology.
John LoBianco
I would like to hear something from our CEO other than how I.B.D. is "the only place one can find the heartbeat of America" |
