On Friday 10 May 2002 11:10 am, Kurt Wall uttered words of wisdom: > 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
Wonder what going to happen with those guys like, Marcus? -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
