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Your Chief Development Officer, Charles Giancarlo, recently left the company. He was widely seen as someone that was being groomed to be your successor. Is there someone now that you are grooming for that role?
Chambers: Well, we never comment upon most likely successors. I think it's very fair to say that we have always had three to five people in the succession line, and that we do not plan to make a change in that for at least three to five years ... But what Cisco has always been able to do is evolve its leadership team very successfully. Was Charlie in the final five and under consideration for those that might be the leaders in [the future]? Yes, he was. Which order we had him in is something that does not add value to the discussion. Am I very comfortable with our leadership evolution of our senior team? Oh yeah and we normally don't miss a beat. My job is to make sure when the eventual change comes as CEO, we don't miss a beat there either.
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