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Technology Stocks : Cabletron Systems (CS: NYSE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BWAC who wrote (5510)	12/30/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8358

What the hell is this: " In his two-month tenure with Cabletron, Carl has already identified several challenges that are preventing Cabletron from achieving its full revenue potential and protecting its margins. His primary task will be to re-instill discipline, accountability and accurate forecasting into the sales organization, with the ultimate result being improved efficiency." And exactly what have Benson and the other management been doing for the last year? I thought their whole focus was to have CS achieve its full revenue and margin potential. What other focus could their possibly be? Is this to say that under Benson in '98 CS lost all its discipline, accountability, and forecasting accuracy? What is this BS?

To: BWAC who wrote (5510)	12/30/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: FNS	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 8358

BWAC: <<In his two-month tenure with Cabletron, Carl has already identified several challenges that are preventing Cabletron from achieving its full revenue potential and protecting its margins. His primary task will be to re-instill discipline, accountability and accurate forecasting into the sales organization, with the ultimate result being improved efficiency.>> HHHHMMMNNNNnnnnnnn!!! Really tkes a brain surgeon, huh! <<Carl comes to Cabletron from Amdahl, where he led their $1 billion North American sales operation as vice president and general manager. We are extremely pleased to have Carl on the senior management team, since he brings years of experience in solutions selling and sales operations to our organization.>> My gut tells me CS hired a dinosaur and is about to become one...the big Q is do I take my lumps now or next year??? Somebody say something nice! Happy New Year, FNS