>> OFF Topic, but need to be said. Then please label it as such.
Much as I dislike MS, the reality is probably that some departments in some areas operated at large net losses and to stop that, they reacted with layoffs, right or wrong. A company that large has to have a lot of deadwood and they may finally be starting to clean up some of it. What amazes me is that someone there was actually able to see the deadwood that needed trimming. The numbers that are actually meaningful to the internal managers are the cash-flow numbers, not the total profit or loss. If there is little spendable cash, they have to find ways to get spendable cash. Most of their billions is not sitting in the banks. Like any other company, if they have no cash they can spend, they cannot move forward. Or sideways, whicherver way you might wish to envision it. Of course, they likely have enough reserves to let them weather a few decades of monetary problems by silently and quietly liquidating "spare" parts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
