begin Zoki's quote: | I must admit I never really cared to understand how it worked... | until today. If somebody feels like giving me a short HOWTO on | capitalism ;-)...
it involves selling your product for more than it cost you. if you fall short in this area consistently, you are either a failure or a charity. | What I read and understood was that their forcast was $18M while | they have "done" $15M and their share value went down. Maybe I | missed it, but where do I see that they spent more than they | earned? you don't see what they spent. what you do see, though, is that they underestimated the amount of business they were going to do -- guessed incorrectly as to their market. this is bad, because it suggests that they do not know what they are doing. they explain it by saying that it was due to unforseen and unforseeable factors out of their control -- the world economy, particularly the european economy. that might be entirely true. it might be entirely in error. it might be anywhere on the continuum between the two. however, even on their best estimates were that they would spend more than they made, to the tune of 28 cents for every outstanding share of stock. because of the revenue shortfall, they actually lost *more* than 28 cents per share. they say that with the current tightening, they will be losing only $2 million per quarter, if nothing else changes. they say that they expect now to be able to increase revenues, presumably without increasing marginal costs much, meaning that they'll be able to make a lot more money without spending a lot more money. if this is so, and if revenues rise by $2 million per quarter more than their expenses rise, they'll break even. and if revenues rise beyond that, they'll turn a profit. all the rest is simply speculation as to how they might better/sooner/more to our liking bring or have brought this about. which to me would mean an up-to-date equivalent of caldera openlinux 2.4, which i think was probably the best linux distribution ever. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
