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Cisco's Chambers gets $2 million payout despite bad year

Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs; Military spends $10M to build Web sites aimed at squelching anti-US messages
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Cisco's Chambers gets $2 million payout despite bad year

Cisco Systems gave Chairman and CEO John Chambers a "discretionary incentive payment" of more than US$2 million for the company's 2009 fiscal year, despite the fact that net income fell nearly 24 percent from the previous year on sales that were down almost 9 percent. Read full story

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