The first two companies he founded were sold to Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems, respectively, for hundreds of millions.
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Jordan also expanded alliances with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Dell and EMC.
Before you shed an empathetic tear for the accused and convicted, keep something else in mind--besides the long corporate knives aimed at Watkins' unsuspecting back: The bum market of 2000 to 2001 hurt plenty of firms like Lucent, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems.
On July 8, tech heavyweights including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems teamed up to fix a fundamental flaw in the Internet, one that could allow any Web user to be invisibly redirected to fraudulent sites designed to steal banking passwords or install malicious software on users' PCs.
Stocks like Cisco, EMC and Sun Microsystems also doubled after Greenspan's easing.
Kaminsky's bug, meanwhile, sent tech companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems scrambling to release fixes and Internet service providers racing to implement them.
Shares in profitable technology providers such as Cisco, Oracle or Sun Microsystems are doing well.
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One assumes the founders and backers of Apple, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, Cisco, Palm, Yahoo and Google passed on it, too.
Upstarts have begun using a version of Linux--the freeware that hurt profits at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard--for their Cisco-killer products.
While GM, Circuit City, Blockbuster, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems have been failing, Apple, Google, Cisco, Netflix, Facebook and Twitter have maintained double-digit growth!
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Companies like Juniper Networks and Sun Microsystems offer comparable training on their technologies, but Morton says the Cisco certificate is a good standard of measurement because of the ubiquity of Cisco equipment.
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