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To: Stock Farmer who wrote (53142)	5/18/2001 3:15:29 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77398

Oh PLEASE! Now you are exasperating me. %age growth is hogwash. If I tell you company A grew at a 100% rate and company B grew at a 15% rate, which would you choose? In your infinite wisdom, I'm sure you'd choose company A. However, the less naive of us, would ask several more questions like 1) what are A and B's respective market shares and 2) what is the total size of the market and 3) how fast is the total market growing? If Cisco hold 70% market share, then they get the lion's share of the growth of a market. End of story. The only thing that makes a difference is if the other companies are taking market share away fast, like Juniper was doing at one point.