I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...
http://www.latimes.com/business/work/20010304/t000019124.html Sunday, March 4, 2001 Workers Who Survive Layoffs Often Share Certain Traits By SARAH HALE, Times Staff Writer      Am I a keeper or a goner?      That is the question Edward, an engineer for a...
Much as individual web sites such as “amihotornot.com” suffer from their success do to their inability to meet demand, so the web in general is having difficulty meeting the scaling requirements of its own popularity. If you believe this (and I do) then...
http://www.amcity.com/seattle/stories/2000/03/13/story2.html B.C. you later Net entrepreneurs are heading to U.S. Steve Ernst Staff Writer Speeding tickets are no longer a worry for Dimitri Sirota. Until a few months ago, the 29-year-old entrepreneur was driving 300...
Wednesday February 23 6:03 PM ET Alcatel Buys Newbridge to Boost Position By Susan Taylor OTTAWA (Reuters) – It was a long dance, but Alcatel (CGEP.PA) on Wednesday finally won Newbridge Networks Corp.(Toronto:NNC.TO – news) in a $7.1 billion deal that...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.