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HUMOR: Cisco to Have City Renamed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Sep 14 08:47:17 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:43:31 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 23:07:50 -0700
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
I think I got this from more people than anything else I've ever distributed.
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CISCO SYSTEMS TO HAVE CITY RENAMED
San Jose, California, September 8, 1995 -- Cisco Systems, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: CSCO), the leading global supplier of internetworking
solutions, today announced their agreement with San Francisco, CA to
rename the city. Coming on the heels of the 3COM/Candlestick
agreement, the city has agreed to roll over again and accept
$5,000,000.00 over a period of 5 years to have the name shortened to
cisco, CA.
According to a company spokesman, "When we saw how easily the city
of San Francisco had rolled over for the 3COM deal, we knew we had an
excellent opportunity. The chance to reinforce cisco's presence
in the networking community and the world at large is something that we
just couldn't pass up. For the price, it's quite a steal."
3COM officials declined to comment on a report that they had tried to
block the deal due to their concern that 3COM Park (formerly
Candlestick Park) would now be located in cisco, CA.
"With the number of national and international visitors, TV coverage,
and the 1999 Superbowl to be held in the newly renamed city, cisco will
continue to extend its reach into every facet of the networking world"
said the spokesman. "We are proud of the outstanding accomplishments of
our employees and partners in fiscal 1995 and we see this as an
excellent opportunity to reward them for their dedication."
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the leading global supplier of enterprise
networks, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers
and network management software.
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