Syarzhuk Kazachehnka wrote:

> 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"?

Not only that, but the business model and the skill sets/mind sets of a
service centric organization are vastly different from a product centric
organization. This is not a change that can be implemented easily.

Kevin