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.

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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.

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