Scribbling feverishly on May 09, Gerry Doris managed to emit: > > The key is that they lost $0.28/share and they lost more than they > predicted just 3 months ago. To shareholders that indicates they don't > have control of their company. Many companies have been punished severely > in the market by missing their projections by just $0.01!!! > I didn't read the full context but if they predicted they would make $18M > and they only made $15 then they were off their own projections by 16.7% > in 3 months...there's no way to make that good news. > The problem is that they need to demonstrate to shareholders that they are > taking measures to reduce the bleeding but laying off staff and closing > down development centres becomes a road straight to oblivion for a > technology company.
Indeed. Erlangen *used* to be where most of the OpenLinux development took place. Oh, excuse me, that was when Caldera was a Linux company. Kurt -- If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.