Spin it any way you want, but on average Red Hat’s numbers look to be their weakest ever, quarterly or yearly. I just saw a story from 2003 that showed them with an 80% sequential quarterly increase in sales, obviously those days are long gone since the current figure is 6%.
Ok Ill look at year over numbers like *everyone in the industry does* and you can cherry pick numbers. Just like oes, computers, cars, and countless other items sets of software have their sweet time of year for sales.
Red Hat’s numbers look to be their weakest ever, quarterly or yearly
Are you sure you want to stand by this? Ill give you a chance to back out now.. 2k3 did you say? isn't that about the time red hat stopped releasing their free operating system sans support and went to only the subscription model? gee I wonder why they had such an increase then (I seem to remember this because I had changed Jobs recently)? Context, like always, is your worst enemy..
Worst ever you say? (This is from 2000) "Not including the adjustments financial analysts factor in, Red Hat reported a net loss of $15.7 million, or 10 cents per share, compared with $4.8 million, or 7 cents per share, a year ago."