From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 12:33:36 ART
>And if you look at Cisco's Stock Price it has a steady rate of growth.
Really?
So much for that analyst job at Goldman Zacks
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=csco
hit "5yr" its been pretty flat the whole decade. Cisco is a mature company.
Nortel is a mature company also, but with less marketing and bad management.
Both of these companies together are in a very flat, slow growth industry.
Apple computer makes toys for people with credit cards who don't like saving
money like IPOD's and Mac books;
Cisco makes network technology that powers business and government
communication networks.
Cisco was once a $500B company. It has yet to recover from the .com bust.
So in a way Cisco's shareholders didn't benefit from the 2002-2006 stock
market recovery much, if at all.
Crox was a better stock ;) (and they are more comfortable too!)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Christopher Copley
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:09 AM
To: Muhammad Nasim
Cc: Ina&Laurean; Bill Eyer; Brad Ellis; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: Cisco vs. Nortel
Group,
This may be very OT, but if you look at Nortel Stock price it is in a nose
dive. And if you look at Cisco's Stock Price it has a steady rate of
growth. Technology aside, why trust your network in the hands of a company
that looks like it is bleeding money(and failing) like dropped packets from
a firewall? Now this is coming from a business perspective and not a
technology perspective, but I would rather trust my network to a
company/vender that looks like it will still be here in 2010! I have read
nothing but bad things in the investment realm on the quality of Nortel as a
viable company to invest in. So again, why trust your network to any thing
with a Nortel sticker on it?
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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