All the convictions in the world don’t mean anything unless they have to give back the money. Of course, the money goes into a forward trust so the convicted parties don’t have it to give back. Lets see, go to prison for 3 years and keep $20 million. Some people would call that a good job.

The disappointment with stock performance is no surprise. Stock price is essentially set but speculative investment. Brokers, very much like used car salesman, try to sell you something that you hope some other person in the future is more gullible than you are now. As an investor, you hope the companies executives came from a good “3 card monty” or shell game background. It like a bad sitcom, only with your money.

Storage networking core interconnect technologies suffers from moore’s law. Capacity now exceeds demand. There is only so much data that you can get to — storage is bottlenecked and the switches have far too much capacity for the amount of data being served. So, sales slow down. That’s what happens when you rely “on the kindness of strangers” for your business.

Challenges in the SMB space, once “someone else’s problem” (the end to end solution) is now everyone’s problem. If storage bandwidth kept up with moore’s law, a single disk drive would be serving data at over a gigabyte per second by now. And, then there would be a market for 10Ge core interconnect.

Nis.ch is so right on “the money”. Brocade’s self description reads like a used car dealer ad. Is this just a bad attempt to personalize and endear the company ?? and to whom ? potential rubes (share holders) ? end users ? judges and prosecutors ? Who approves this stuff before its published ?

For the board’s and the exec’s, they never deserve what they get when they get caught, they deserve more. Only the small fries go to jail, unless the “big cheeses ” are arrogant in front of the jury and can’t make the “common man” play believable. Someone should have mentioned to Stephanie Jensen ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law, unless you get enough money to buy your way out of the jackpot.

For the one’s that get caught, I’ll give them a hanky as they cry to all the way to their forward trust piggy banks and the “big house”.

I sort of feel bad for these small fries, they have to go to jail for doing the same thing their bosses do, but the bosses get off with no jail time and don’t have to give back the money. Judges should be more forgiving during sentencing. After all, if they get caught and convicted, they shouldn’t be held responsible for their actions. In fact, if they don’t steal more than $10 million, they should get off free.

Why ? Just the fact they would take that sort of risk for so little money, get caught and then convicted. That should be proof enough they must be suffering from some sort of diminished mental capacity or suffer from some sort of sociopathic mental defect.