[fight_truth_decay]

Samsung 4th-Qtr. Profits Jump 24 Percent
By Associated Press
January 15, 2004

SEOUL (AP)—Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea on Thursday posted a 24 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit on strong demand for its memory chips and liquid crystal displays.

IBM Earnings More Than Double By Brian Bergstein
January 15, 2004

NEW YORK (AP)— IBM Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street expectations Thursday, continuing a streak of good financial news from technology companies.

In the last three months of 2003, IBM earned $2.7 billion, or $1.55 per share, on revenue of $25.9 billion. Those figures all surged from the comparable period a year earlier, when IBM posted a net profit of $1.0 billion, or 59 cents per share, on revenue of $23.7 billion.

Intel Reports Record Revenue 1.14.2004

UPDATED: Sales of microprocessors, chip sets, logicboards and Ethernet products reached record levels in the fourth quarter.

1.14.2004 Yahoo's Q4 Profit Jumps 62 Percent

Yahoo! Inc. rode a rising wave of online advertising to a 62 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profit, continuing the Internet powerhouse's robust recovery from the dot-com downturn.

1.14.2004
Apple Hits Four-Year High on Audio Boom

Apple Computer on Wednesday reported first-quarter results that exceeding the company's own guidance, showing the highest quarterly revenue in four years.

[Gerasimov]

Ever since they started selling repackaged Compaq's, I've not been much of an HP fan.

But, writing this from my all-linux-all-the-time computer, I might give them a second thought.

[dighton]

...

[Leroy S. Mort]

Odd that the article doesn't mention how much of HP's Linux revenue came from their joint venture with Red Flag Linux in Communist China:

"The HP-Intel Solutions Center in Shanghai already has about 50 Linux experts that will help develop the Linux market in China." Martin Fink, vice president of Linux, HP Enterprise Storage and Servers, said in the statement.

The cooperative effort will be targeted at the China market at first and will be later expanded to Asia-Pacific, then worldwide.

"This strategic alliance with HP will drive the adoption of enterprise Linux in China," Liu Bo, Red Flag Software's President and CEO, said in the statement.

HP and Red Flag will partner with global chip giant Intel, database software maker Oracle and software maker BEA to provide a common platform for China's government, telecommunications and commercial sectors.

[Golden Eagle]

As your comments show this is more related to a tech turnaround than any particular advantage Linux provides. IMO open source software like Linux gives U.S. trade secrets away by exposing it's code and allowing free duplication, and we would be much better served selling them closed source software for a higher profit. Further development and growth of Windows, Unix, Apple, any of those would be preferrable to us continuing to squander our technological advantage by investing further into the Finnish virus.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Carly's had all kinds of good news lately.

[theFIRMbss]

>While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.

Press releases all
come with a shaker of salt.
After all, before

people stopped talking
about Java, companies
used to brag about

their commitment to
that... It's just corporations
and corporate games.

[AFreeBird]

but, but, but... Linux is a commie OS according to B2K and his fellow sycophants, and giving away software will kill America, and sap our strength, and rob us of our preciuous bodily fluids, as surely as floridated water.

Companies can't make money on Linux.

[Glenn]

Bummer.

[Glenn]

Whatever.

[July 4th]

Other interesting HP news: Apple is going to license the iPod design and technology to HP. Expect iPod clones later this year at a slightly lower price than Apple's version.