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To: elmatador who wrote (25120)	5/9/1999 5:40:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 77400

Hey, matador, my impression of Chambers is that he is a salesman for Cisco. Their customers potential customers,and associate venders will turn out for him, when they might not for the guy with the Sales Manager Title.

To: elmatador who wrote (25120)	5/9/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: jach	Respond to of 77400

<stayed at home and ran the company instead. That is what he is good at, after all. So too for most other chief executives who are tarted up and shoved on stage to booming rock chords. Putting a human face on a company worth as much as a small country is tempting, but a face alone is not enough. It has to talk, too; and these days of visionary glut, it grows harder all the time to stand out in the marketplace of ideas. Better shell out on the advertising and leave the products to speak for themselves.> ---------- pretty much right on if one has to consider the thousands of engs a company has and the scope of new products that were coming out; all imo-