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To: Jurgen who wrote (54360)	8/7/2001 9:33:10 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Definitely not a loan...they have no debt. A/P has stayed very consistent in terms of inventory to A/P ratios. Inventory sales only generated some $100 million of the $1.7B in positive cash flows. As far as profitability, they brought in $6.6B in cash this year. Is that profitable enough for you? I hope so, because I'm happy with that. Now the right question to be asking is not related to anything you mentioned, rather, it's how much of that $6.6B was due to exercising of stock options? Stock options exercises have played a big role in Cisco's cash flows in the past, so I'm thinking it's playing a much smaller role now. However, John Shannon may be able to shed some light on this one. I'll do my own investigation once the 10-K comes out.