I think what they're doing is promising us what they can deliver. The question in February will be, 'can they deliver a little more than that?

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My gut feeling is they'll probably say there will be low visibility in the near term, but things will come back in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2001.

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They're showing progress. They promised us they would cut costs.

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They delivered on the revenues, they delivered on the guidance ... they looked pretty confident going forward.

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In a market where a lot of companies haven't managed to deliver, that is probably good enough. You can't expect miracles forever.

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So far, they're looking pretty good.

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I think Cisco can definitely meet [second-quarter] estimates. You've got to give the company a ton of respect for their ability to manage their internal business on a day-by-day basis.

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If you want a rule of thumb, 40 percent of the cost of putting in a new application is integrating it with the other applications.

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People come to tech for that extra-special sizzle, not for the steak. By buying into Cisco they're buying into a market that's more moderate.

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