On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:25 +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > What 16 thousand million? Who said there was no money in electronic > music instruments? >
Yes it does sound a bit excessive, doesn't it? According to the same website, Roland is selling for $40 billion. This includes their Video gear though. And then again, Yamaha is selling for only $4 billion, which is highly surprising compared to the two others?! Did something get lost in translation? Are these figures really Taiwan or Hong Kong dollars? Yen? Roland is publically traded and hence publish their key data, which tells us that their sales for 2009 were at ¥100,506,864,000 (Yen!) which then again still translates to around a billion US dollars - but nowhere near the forty like it was quoted in the link I gave yesterday. Sorry ... Roland: $1 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39242560 Yamaha: $4 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39283560 Kawai: $1/2 billion http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C392AK960 My guess is that KORG would be selling maybe like Kawai? (while of course targetting an entirely different market.) In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable. ... And now back to our regular programming: "How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others have thrown in the dumpster?" > On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17:46 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: > >> I read about this Korg OASYS ... > > > >> ... Proprietary world is so full of wasted efforts, imho. > > > > The 290 employees at KORG is raking in a cool $16,419.7 million in > > annual sales from their efforts, so they might deviate just slightly > > from our most humble opinions. > > > > :-D > > > > http://www.hoovers.com/company/Korg_Inc/rfcjhyi-1.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
