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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KYA27 who wrote (8420)	6/30/1999 9:47:00 AM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

From: http://fnews.yahoo.com/street/99/06/29/valley_990629.html Speaking of broadband, though, one wonders why competitors like Juniper Networks (Nasdaq:JNPR - news), Broadcom (Nasdaq:BRCM - news), Nexabit and others even exist, considering the power of Lucent's vaunted R&D efforts. "There are always going to be some guys who decide they want to go out and roll their own," says McGinn, referring to the startups that exploit their passion and easy access to venture capital to attack a corner of Lucent's business. He describes this as "barbell innovation," with startups like Juniper, Broadcom and Nexabit occupying one end of the barbell and giants like Lucent and Cisco the other. Mark