>Perhaps his [Mr.Yocam's - SK] better contribution was to envision
>the future is more in services than in developmnent tools.

Just take a look at consolidated statement of operations:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000127/ca_inprise_1.html
For the year ended on Dec 31, 1999, Inprise earned $150.550M in revenues
from "Licenses and other". Cost of "Licenses and other" revenues? $19.267M.
That means a dollar invested in "Licenses and other" earns $7.81 - not bad!
"Services" - revenues - $24.256M, cost of revenues - $22.676
So the dollar invested in "Services" earns $1.07

Now tell me which business would YOU want to be in - the one where you earn
7.81 on the dollar or 1.07? So where is the "future"?

Just because RedHat/VALinux make most of the money in services doesn't
necessarily mean Inprise should...

Syarzhuk

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