re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsHow much time do any of us want to spend dissecting a post that Ron Crotty wrote about LR? No, it wasn't a "study," so let's just call it what it was- a post. By the way, Zaffire has advertised on the LR site, and they received a rating of 1. I guess that one slipped by you, eh?
If you don't like LR, go somewhere else, but please, stop with the whining about free speech, journalistic integrity, blah blah blah! At least try to pretend that you're not pissed off CSCO shareholders!
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder Suits"LR has two things down to a science - their high-quality technology exposees, and the way they treat Cisco, Nortel and others. I hope they break their science of attack on these companies, because my company should be truthfully reported on like any other."
Truth is in the eye of the beholder. If you want "truth" go to your company's web site. I don't particularly like all that LR writes about my company, but also take what they write, along with what our PR folks write, with a grain of salt.
Part of what makes LR interesting is their analysis. They do their best to use facts, but realize analysis also involves conjecture, and that is where they get your goat. If you don't like it, then disagree, but don't try to take them down because or shut them up because you do. That, of course, goes both ways.
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsWow - Ron Crotty has Light Reading editorial down to a science.
No doubt, LR has educated me about optics through its columns and other features better than any textbook or class.
But, having reviewed past articles, which offer consistently horrendous coverage of non-advertisers, I think Steve owes it to his readership to reveal why he and his writers go above-and-beyond factual reporting to use so much rumour in writing on these companies.
LR has two things down to a science - their high-quality technology exposees, and the way they treat Cisco, Nortel and others. I hope they break their science of attack on these companies, because my company should be truthfully reported on like any other.
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder Suits"...But, having reviewed past articles..."
What articles are you referring to? Anything specific?
"...which offer consistently horrendous coverage of non-advertisers..."
Again, anything specific that you feel was unfair? There's a difference between being unfair to a company and reporting bad news about a company. I'm surprised you don't know the difference.
..."he and his writers go above-and-beyond factual reporting to use so much rumour in writing on these companies..."
What, precisely, was not factual about this article? You lose credibility when you generalize.
I don't suppose you were a communist political officer in a previous life, were you? LR reported facts, and you're accusing LR of being anti-Cisco simply because those facts did not put Cisco in a favorable light.
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsYeah, he got busted. Put up 5 million in cash,and his 1.6 million dollar house( although that's chump change for a house around here,40 year old 2 bedrooms will get a cool million in this market!). I personally hope they string him up from the flagpole in front of 170 W. Tasman Dr.
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsGee, another brain. Would you rather have layoffs like Cisco, where 30% are temp & contract workers, or like Nortel, just cut 20,000 out of the core? The others are scrambling so hard, they up the numbers weekly! As for the lawsuits ( notice the plural), The same law firm filed 39 others like it in the same week. The copiers must have been working overtime! ( paste defendant's name here).
Oh really! What a sheltered life you have led! I don't know whether to laugh or to cry at all of this whining about dashed dotcom dreams. So maybe you won't be able to retire at 30. Is that really such a horrible thing? Try to adjust to life outside the dream world of the 90s. Stocks crash, companies get into trouble, life goes on. Get over it. Your parents went through it. Your grandparents went through it. Now it is your turn. Stop whining and blaming the messenger. It makes you look like a spoiled little 90s brat who has never seen a slowdown or a company under press scrutiny before.
>Cisco's write offs, vendor financing deals, bad debts, defaults etc are all a small percentage when compared to the revenue and cash flow they generate.
Small percentage huh?! Tell that to the 8500 people they are laying off. You know what disappoints me the most about Cisco management? The fact that they seem to have such an interesting combination of hubris and cowardice (Where is the courage to face a hostile Wall Street if you know you are on the right track?). When they were the darlings of Wall Street they were as arrogant and overbearing as a company can get. The minute they hit some stormy weather and their stock price tanks they go straight to the layoffs (and they weren't even completely forthright about that--take a look at the press releases over the time period in question). They have a saying here in the Lone Star State: "He's all hat and no horse". When the "Cisco kid" rode into Dallas he had a very big hat on. He was going to take the town by storm. He was going to build a big campus and become a force to be reckoned with in the telecom business. Such hubris! Leaving two buildings unfinished after such grandiose plans were touted less than a year ago says alot about Cisco. It says too much hat, too little horse. And despite the generosity of the severance package offered Cisco employees in Dallas I think it will be a while before Cisco can approach a telecom engineer in Dallas with a job offer without getting a smirk in return.
And by the way, Photonic, trying to show disrespect for the author of the article by calling her "Maggie" says more about your character than hers. Grow up and stop whining.
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsQuick, let's sue LR!! They're going bankrupt!! What will happen to the value of my free registration?? My finances will never recover!!
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsWHOAAA, Trigger! Who wasn't a multimillionaire by 30? Speak for yourself, clown!!! I just don't happen to be a multimillionaire right now.(ROFL) Hey, what goes up must come down, and usually goes up again( unless your name is Humpty-Dumpty!). Have a great year, and a better one next year. Go Bulls!
re: Cisco Socked with Shareholder SuitsWhoah man...alot of hatred going on here. I don't remember this stuff way back mid-last year when I last read.
The readers hate LR, LR hates the readers. What's going on, man?
LR writes some wicked-good stuff. What's with the vendettas goin back and forth? Is it because it drives traffic here? I can't make out these LR guys at all.
If you don't like LR, go somewhere else, but please, stop with the whining about free speech, journalistic integrity, blah blah blah! At least try to pretend that you're not pissed off CSCO shareholders!