From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 12:57:34 ART
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Great one man!
That pretty much settles it!
Cisco should use that as it ad slogan!
"What has your network done for you lately?"
Considering I'm consulting till the end of the year at Ogilvy & Mather (who
has the Cisco account) I'll walk up stairs and ask them to use it!
LOL
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Anthony Faria
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:55 AM
To: Colin McNamara
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: Cisco vs. Nortel
All I know is that it is Cisco that pays my bills. I think a lot of us could
say the same. What has Nortel done for me lately LOL.
Tony
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Colin McNamara <Colin@2cups.com> wrote:
> Does anybody want to get into a Ford vs Chevy debate while we are at it?
> Both companies are mature large cap investments. I think people would
> generally agree that Nortel's strength has mainly been in carrier
equipment
> and TDM PBX's. Cisco has always been heavy in the enterprise play (route /
> switch / voip / security), while participating in the carrier segments
also.
> I think at the end of the day the discussion is not about what is better
or
> faster, because with chipset releases, code upgrades that will always
> change. The question is, what is better for the customer. That can
> encompass, training, support, future proofing, end to end product
coverage.
> In that aspect, I think Cisco has an edge.
>
> But, thats just my opinion.
>
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>
> "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little
> longer"
>
>
>
> Joseph Brunner wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
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