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To: Techplayer who wrote (12598)1/12/2000 8:25:00 AM
From: Curtis E. Bemis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21876
 
DEC WAS in a high growth area-- data communications and
networking. Trouble was, and they had smart folks, that
DEC's visions of networking were the wrong ones. That is
where the Ciscos of the world emerged.



To: Techplayer who wrote (12598)1/12/2000 12:32:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21876
 
re: "The difference is that DEC was not in a high growth area."

Brian,

to me this makes it even worse for LU/McGinn to allow this to happen. They had the opportunities and just did not execute.(McGinn's own words).

jim