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To: djane who wrote (60392)	3/24/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

djane, once again another excellent post. I think it is this sentiment... "There isn't anything in the industry that provides the reliability, the scalability and the feature functions" of the traditional office phone system, said William T. O'Shea, who runs Lucent's office systems group. "There plain isn't another answer today." ..that will ultimately be dangerous to incumbent "old-world" telecom companies. IP telephony has cricital mass in the development community and it is VERY real. LU hiding their head in the sand won't make it go away.... OG

To: djane who wrote (60392)	3/24/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Mighty Mizzou	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

The thought of a little red Lucent bulls eye staring at Chambers right between the eyes each and every working day has got to be the funniest thing Ive read in a LONG time! IT'S AN OMEN OG!!! BEWARE!!!!!!!!! GO ASND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When John T. Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems Inc., walks into his windowless, cubicle-like office here each morning, he sees a dinosaur on his desk that he is intent on driving to extinction. It sits to the left of his laptop computer's docking station: a standard office telephone made by Lucent Technologies Inc., the former equipment arm of the AT&T Corporation and North America's largest maker of traditional telephone gear.