| Subject | RE: RE: Interbase news |
|---|---|
| Author | Claudio Valderrama C. |
| Post date | 2000-02-11T06:12:22Z |
Just curious, I read some article where Inprise claims it has lost of some
quantity due to the operation of subsidiary ISC.
I think services companies get money from advertisement (ads, links to
other companies) and agreements and also from risk-adict investors. For
example, the free email services. AFAIK, Inprise never has exploited this
idea.
If a dollar in products produces almost 8 dollars whereas a dollar in
services produces almost no profit, I ask myself:
- Why do other companies SEEM to succeed in the services field and Inprise
doesn't? If Inprise is taking IB open source, if the core of JBuilder was
released freely, if the core of BCB will be released freely, where are they
going to get the money?
- If the licenses (due to tools, I guess, because they don't seem to sell
technology licenses apart from the MS deal) generate a good income, then why
Borland has been at the border of the precipice so many times? They always
produced tools, they would have to be rich now.
Of course, given that numbers, I prefer to stay in the tools side and not
on the services side. However, this doesn't fit with the poor earnings of
the company.
C.
quantity due to the operation of subsidiary ISC.
I think services companies get money from advertisement (ads, links to
other companies) and agreements and also from risk-adict investors. For
example, the free email services. AFAIK, Inprise never has exploited this
idea.
If a dollar in products produces almost 8 dollars whereas a dollar in
services produces almost no profit, I ask myself:
- Why do other companies SEEM to succeed in the services field and Inprise
doesn't? If Inprise is taking IB open source, if the core of JBuilder was
released freely, if the core of BCB will be released freely, where are they
going to get the money?
- If the licenses (due to tools, I guess, because they don't seem to sell
technology licenses apart from the MS deal) generate a good income, then why
Borland has been at the border of the precipice so many times? They always
produced tools, they would have to be rich now.
Of course, given that numbers, I prefer to stay in the tools side and not
on the services side. However, this doesn't fit with the poor earnings of
the company.
C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Syarzhuk Kazachehnka [mailto:bamboo7431@...]
> Sent: Jueves 10 de Febrero de 2000 10:56
> To: IBDI@onelist.com
> Subject: [IBDI] RE: Interbase news
>
>
> From: "Syarzhuk Kazachehnka" <bamboo7431@...>
>
> >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
>
> Be healthy, stay wealthy...
>
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