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To: Zoltan! who wrote (30575)	12/22/1999 8:18:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

The article is indeed good, it effectively rebuts Mr. Fun's sophomoric and persuasively wrongheaded analogy between Cisco and IBM: techstocks.com That is something that people actually familiar with IBM and Cisco would never do: Interestingly, Lucent's McGinn offered Cisco a similar, if backhanded compliment. "Cisco has the best sales machine since IBM in the '70s," McGinn says. His comments beg us to recall that a decade later, IBM's renowned sales machine couldn't save the giant whose technology had become too inbred for the market. However, we think the comparison isn't particularly useful. Although Cisco has never been shy about implementing proprietary technologies, neither has it ever exhibited the "not-invented-here" myopia pervasive at IBM 20 years ago. networkcomputing.com If anything, that is an understatement. Chambers watched what complacent management did at IBM and Wang and is more determined than anyone that his company shall not repeat that history.