F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV)

[Not_Bill_Oneil]

Actually, I started trading this...

back in 1999 and 2000. That and DITC I remember, as they both IPO'd in June '99 and both screamed higher that year - two of many growth stocks back then.

I had visited the Exodus Communications data center in LA (they later opened another closer to me in Irvine) and saw the F5 boxes, and talked to the F5 guys at Internet World in LA (which was big back then), CES, etc. over the years. Maybe write more on EXDS some other time.

I still have a hard plastic F5 red ball (like a desk or shelf ornament), F5 pen, etc. that I got from those shows.

I sold my last shares from that period as everything was coming down the next spring; I remember getting out around $90. Must have been March as the markets started to collapse.

I've been trading it again since 2003, and now we're almost back to where I left off seven years ago.