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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (46712)1/10/2001 10:09:14 PM
From: Canuck Dave  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 77400
 
Lets talk about honorable business practices.

First of all, I have never owned CSCO, but I was day trading NT today (long) when it dropped on Chamber's "challenging" comment.

I have read a lot of posts and analyses saying what a great company CSCO is and how squeaky clean its business practices are. Horse shit. Chambers has been claiming all along that all was bright and beautiful in Networking Land and then he drops this little road apple in the middle of the trading session.

Is this any way to adhere to 'full disclosure'? Anybody with the least amount of brains could see this coming at some point, but give us the benefit of room temperature IQ's, John. Let me offer a modest alternative to the way things were done.

News Wire: 8:37 a.m., Dec 10, 2001

Before meeting with analysts in a closed door session, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco systems (CSCO) announced that revenues and earnings had slowed slightly in the last half of the quarter and.....


You can fill in the rest.

Let's see some honest dealings in the future, Johnny, for EVERYONE's sake.

CD



To: Ed Forrest who wrote (46712)1/11/2001 8:38:06 AM
From: bambs  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 77400
 
are you going to comment on the article?

my favorite part?

bambs