{"id":603,"date":"2008-11-06T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2008-11-06T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:40:00","slug":"an-interesting-data-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/an-interesting-data-point\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting data point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Chambers of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Cisco<\/span> is forecasting a decline in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=adoJiaI6CAN4&amp;refer=us\">sales.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onmouseover=\"return escape( popwQuoteShort( this, 'CSCO:US' ))\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=CSCO%3AUS\"><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">Sales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"> will decline as much as 10 percent in the second quarter, which ends in January, Chambers said yesterday on a conference call. In August, he predicted a gain of 8.5 percent from a year earlier.<br \/>Business changed course after the credit crunch hit, pushing October orders down 9 percent, Chambers said, adding that his comfort level with the forecast was the lowest since the dot-com bust in 2000. Chambers plans to save $1 billion in <\/span><a onmouseover=\"return escape( popwQuoteShort( this, 'CSCO:US' ))\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=CSCO%3AUS\"><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">costs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"> over the next three quarters by curbing hiring, business travel and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">relocations<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Cisco<\/span> has to tighten its belt, people notice.  <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Zerowait<\/span> can help lower operating costs for companies and we look forward to working with many more companies to show them how they can  <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">operating<\/span> costs while <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">maintaining<\/span> their High Availability Service levels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-6938117481697382825?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Chambers of Cisco is forecasting a decline in sales. Sales will decline as much as 10 percent in the second quarter, which ends in January, Chambers said yesterday on a conference call. In August, he predicted a gain of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/an-interesting-data-point\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}