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To: Dave Gore who wrote (42990)	2/6/2002 11:16:31 PM
From: Smart_Money	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 208838

'Clever Marketing'? Before announcing its quarterly earnings, Cisco issued a statement regarding "an internal communication from a Cisco executive characterizing Cisco's Q2 financial results in positive terms [that] was inadvertently distributed to a large number of Cisco employees after close of market on February 5." The premature report, which Slaby said he suspects might be "clever marketing," was followed by an official statement from Cisco chief financial officer Larry Carter, which then was followed by the company's official second-quarter earnings report. "So as to minimize any potential confusion, the results we announce this afternoon will exceed the current consensus estimates of earnings per share and revenues for the second quarter of our fiscal year," Carter said.