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To: Golden Eagle
Spin it any way you want

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."

13 posted on 09/27/2007 2:43:38 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3; Golden Eagle

Eeek I did not close a tag

GE: “Spin it any way you want”

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.

GE:”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.”


14 posted on 09/27/2007 2:46:07 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3
Not including the adjustments financial analysts factor in

Which is why you have to look at sales, to exclude all the under the hood fudging done by accountants. Only 6% increase in quarter to quarter sales for Red Hat, wonder what they'll start charging for this time, haven't they already tried to start charging for JBoss too?

15 posted on 09/27/2007 2:52:39 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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