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To: Georgeb who wrote (14695)	5/9/2000 12:39:00 AM
From: SyncMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

Debt means that you are mortgating future growth for current growth. You have to feed debt. You feed debt with money that can't be used for growth. I agree that in certain instances a company needs to look at all it's options for financing, and perhaps debt is the best option available too it. Of course, if you the company is generating a ton of cash on a constant basis, it seems a benefit not to have to borrow for growth. Employee retention is certainly a problem across the board. But perhaps it's not the same degree across the board. I have read that CSCO's ability to retain acquired companies employee's for years after the purchase is quite good. I am a software engineer, and I agree - life is very good. I would think that CSCO would agree that it's router market is not growing as fast as it once was. If it was, I don't think it would be trying so hard to get into the optical/wireless/communications/etc. build out market. But hasn't CSCO always aquisition to growth it's revenue. Doesn't that sort of means that it IS organic? :)