Looks to me unfortunately that Nortel has just become to Lucent what Bay has been to Cisco. While Cisco always made or exceeded their number Bay was always giving lip service about all the great technologies and bells and whistles and then warning that they would not make the number for various reasons. Now it is Lucent that comes out and says "hey we will make BOTH revenue and earnings numbers" while Nortel is bragging about bells and whistles and oh yea by the way guys ,,,we will miss our revenue number,,, .....depressed and contemplating just finally saying goodbye to a very stupid move ,,,owning Bay networks...down and out ,,,, George |