On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:48:50PM -0400, Jay Nugent wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, 9 May 2002, dep wrote: > > > >http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71003%2C00.html?nlid=AM > > Gee... $15 Million in revenue is a "Bad Thing"(tm)??? Not the $18 > Million they expected. What sort of P/E does the $15 mil represent? I > would have to say that is GOOD news in light of the number of Linux > distributions that tanked in the last 12 months.
I'm afraid this comment displays a lack of understanding. $18M wasn't profit, but income. They lost money, which means they spent more than the $18M in the same time period. That's negative earnings, which makes P/E meaningless. If you want, you can look at Price/Sales ratios, but that also would miss the concern that these folks have lost touch with their economic realities. > And I'm not at all suprised to hear they are cutting costs and letting > go their Chief Technology officer. They are long overdue to perform a bit > of 'restructuring'... > > --- Jay Maybe, but cutting the technology out of a technology company is rarely the road to success. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
