The Oct. 22 initial public offering of Sycamore Networks, an optical networking company, clinched it.
Smith is the president and chief executive of Sycamore Networks, a maker of hardware for optical-data networks.
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But with a possible resurgence in the works, Sycamore shows it may have had strong roots all along.
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The Fellowship also runs a restorative justice course for prisoners in Bury St Edmunds called The Sycamore Tree.
The bubble burst, sending the market crashing, and companies like Sycamore with it.
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Sycamore was named after the tree that lives for a remarkably long time.
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The Oct. 22 IPO of Sycamore Networks, an optical networking company, clinched it.
"There they are, " he said, pointing toward nine horses, heads down grazing, in a meadow framed by oaks and sycamore.
And I find it hard to recognize some relatives of ours like the rotifer, the sycamore, iguanas and sea stars.
One of its biggest hits is Sycamore Networks of Chelmsford, Mass.
Surfwear firm Billabong is to enter takeover talks with a consortium led by its former US boss Paul Naude and private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
"There is no guarantee that the proposed transaction will proceed, and neither the Sycamore consortium nor Billabong is under any obligation to proceed, " it added.
To our right was a widely spaced row of parched sycamore saplings, and on the other side of it the traffic was whining and roaring.
The company also said talks are continuing with two potential suitors, Sycamore Partners and a consortia of Altamont Capital and VF Corp.
But, taking account of his moral lowliness, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, to see Jesus and let himself be seen and converted by him.
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It is based on the Bible story of Zacchaeus, the cheating chief tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree to get a better view of Jesus.
However, His Honour Judge Phillip Sycamore ruled the council had acted correctly and upheld the actions of the planning officer who recommended permission should be granted.
Anderson's firm and Matrix Partners have invested in 28 deals together, including Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people ).
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Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
Sycamore and Optical are just an early rumbling in the tectonic shift that has begun shaking the telecommunications industry: the move to optical networking, the hottest new market in high tech.
Some of the key attractions will include The Lodge featuring a range of shops and a restaurant, as well as Teahouse in the Tree House set in an old sycamore tree.
After 10 consecutive quarters of losses for the company, Sycamore on Thursday surprised Wall Street when it reported a small profit of about half a million dollars for its fiscal fourth quarter.
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Billabong said the 10-day exclusivity period of takeover talks would allow Sycamore to engage an "internationally recognised accounting firm to complete a confirmatory quality of earnings analysis, typical of an acquisition debt financing".
The decorative flourishes in the Chinese-themed rooms--silk pillows, framed lotus flower prints, armoires made of mappa burl wood or sycamore--make them a touch more interesting than the Western rooms, but nothing feels particularly revelatory.
However, His Honour Judge Sycamore dismissed the application.
Sycamore has Naude, a presumed ally of Merchant.
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Richard Glover QC, appearing for the site owners, told Judge Sycamore that if the compulsory purchase order (CPO) threat was lifted, the claimants intended to bring forward development proposals that would be "of significantly greater benefit to Margate than the CPO scheme".
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Fund manager Rajiv Kaul has focused on a handful of relatively new companies, including high-speed router maker Juniper Net (nasdaq: JUNI) at 8.98% of holdings, semiconductor manufacturer JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) at 6.09% and optical networking vendor Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people) at 3.14%.
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