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To: Morgan Drake who wrote (1579)	4/29/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: KY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Morgan, Would be interested in hearing more about these "CSCO killers." KY

To: Morgan Drake who wrote (1579)	4/29/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Morgan, All the upward buying momentum in this stock has been from tech buyers and/or folks directly connected to the Street. Main Street has yet to discover Q. A better analogy with the status of adoption of their CDMA product could never be made. --Mike Buckley

To: Morgan Drake who wrote (1579)	4/29/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: R.V.M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Re the prospect of a non-PC dominated future: What companies do you think stand to dominate with internet appliances? Thanks, Jill M.

To: Morgan Drake who wrote (1579)	4/29/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

>>CSCO is going to have to hustle with acquistions if it's gonna compete with LU. How about 2.7B of acquisitions in the last 3 weeks? But it won't hurt their earnings - it was all done with >125 p/e stock; a little dilutive, but they seem to have institutionalized accretive acquisitions. >>Additionally, it's my understanding that there are some CSCO killers moving up fast on the outside. Small companies with superior and cheaper technology. There have always been challengers with better technology or much lower cost to csco's hardware. What you need to appreciate is that csco is really a software company that sells hardware - or as I picked up from DownSouth recently, a tin dipped software company. IOS is as pervasive in the networking arena as Windows is in desktop computing, and csco uses it to leverage their hardware sales. That's why their gross margins (>65%) and market share are so obscene. Morgan, Cisco's Gorillahood is derived from their software, not their routers and switches. I'm very long on csco and sleeping like a baby <g> Frank