Word: cisco
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...Atlanta sent a contingent of city planners. And Thanksgiving week, Kamen took his act to California. In one jam-packed day in Silicon Valley, he revealed the Segway to officials from San Francisco International Airport, the California department of transportation, the city of Palo Alto, Stanford University and Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. Especially gratifying to Kamen was the reaction of Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel and, unlike so many Silicon Valley boosters, a bone-deep skeptic. Perched tentatively on the machine, the 65-year-old Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed...
...reach $12 billion in revenues, according to Allied Business Intelligence, a research firm in Oyster Bay, N.Y. And many companies are logging growth rates upwards of 30% a year. The big drivers of the business are the Internet and info-tech services. Firms with work forces dispersed worldwide--Accenture, Cisco, Oracle--translate their certification and training materials, placing them on globally accessible "corporate university" websites. Buyers of software expect help sites and manuals in their language...
...Other entrepreneurs are thinking even more broadly. Take Arisem, a knowledge management company based in Paris. It told potential investors in a prospectus handed out during the Tech Tour that it wants to emulate France?s Vivendi Universal for its corporate strategy, Germany?s SAP for its business model, Cisco for its human relations and talent management and Yahoo for its speed in getting products to market...
...Among tour participants: venture capitalists, investment bankers and scouts for Cisco, Intel...
...Last year Brawerman, the former head of Cisco Europe, was No. 1 on Time Digital Europe's Top 25. After a year in which many of Europe's software stars have burned out, Reef is still going strong...