[PLUG] Microsoft Earnings Report

Eric Brockman ebrock-ml at wa-net.com
Thu Oct 23 15:56:02 UTC 2003


Gee we're not going to make $100 off an OEM copy of Windows XP anymore

Thank you,

Eric Brockman
Network Administrator
World Access Network, Inc.
ebrock at wa-net.com
(800) 607-2502
(360) 574-4448
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Cooper Stevenson" <cstevens at gencom.us>
To: <lug at peak.org>
Cc: "PLUG Mailing List" <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>; "Eugene LUG Mailing List"
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Microsoft Earnings Report


> All,
>
> Shares of Microsoft common stock are down today on the heels of their Q4
> earnings report:
>
>
http://sec.thomsonfn.com/sec/SecProd?pid=MzgwYlhOdVAkWQEQUALSTOEQUALSTO&transform=result&type=results&doc_type=REGST&doc_dcn=03948319&cont_format=HTML&cont_qualifier=C&doc_product=E&viewer=N#r4
>
> Here are a few highlights:
>
> "As a result of challenges to our business model, sales of our products
> may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our
> products, and our revenues and operating margins may consequently
> decline. Since our inception, our business model has been based upon
> customers agreeing to pay a fee to license software developed and
> distributed by us."
>
> Also...
>
> "In recent years, there has been a growing challenge to the commercial
> software model, often referred to as the Open Source model. Under the
> Open Source model, software is produced by loosely associated groups of
> unpaid programmers, and the resulting software and the intellectual
> property contained therein is licensed to end users at substantially no
> cost. The most notable example of Open Source software is the Linux
> operating system. While we believe that our products provide customers
> with significant advantages in security and productivity, and generally
> have a lower total cost of ownership than Open Source software, the
> popularization of the Open Source model continues to pose a significant
> challenge to our business model, including recent efforts by proponents
> of the Open Source model to convince governments worldwide to mandate
> the use of Open Source software in their purchase and deployment of
> software products. To the extent the Open Source model gains increasing
> market acceptance, sales of our products may decline, we may have to
> reduce the prices we charge for our products, and revenues and operating
> margins may consequently decline."
>
> Just thought you'd like to know.
>
>
> Best,
> -- 
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