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To: mrknowitall who wrote (16292)	8/25/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

mrknowitall, You know what's interesting, in the final analysis he always comes back to discussing some supposed BAY superiority. Recent reports show that Cisco grew 168% in the overall LAN swichting marketplace while BAY and 3com marketshares shrank. However in the 1st qtr where Gig ethernet and L3 was counted, BAY did get top billing. For the wonderful person -who always claims that everything cisco develops is purchased- a question - Wasn't RapidCity a good buy? Without them there would be nothing for him to talk about (the GigE and L3 stuff was from RapidCity not internally developed at BAY - and by the way incompatible with classic BAY equipment). I will be interested in what he can talk about 2 qtrs from now when even that one segment has been overwhelmed :-) Now think about classic Bay - the Synoptics stuff and the Wellfleet routers - nothing new here in years and declining marketshare all around. My suspicion is that he interviewed at cisco and was turned down and is on a vendetta and takes it out on csco investors. It would be best to not reply to his posts and let him go... John

To: mrknowitall who wrote (16292)	8/25/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

MrknowNothing, Re -- You make a fool of yourself in implying that tens of thousands of networking professionals with at least as much or more experience than you, have somehow been hoodwinked by the industry's leading router and switch vendor There are many considerations that go into buying and using equipment. It is the thousands of networking professionals (in their views in trade magazines and surveys) who have expressed that Cisco's technological prowess is definately not one of their top considerations. So much for Cisco engineering, and their FAILED acquistions.