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Ransome should be kicked out by the shareholdersI've worked for Caldera years ago : these guys are going to be trading pink slips very soon, and Ransome deserves most the blame for it (the rest of the blame go to dipsticks Benoit and Pomeroy and some others): they were the biggest Linux vendor when RH was only a small software shop, and they could own the Linux desktop and server space instead of them by now : instead they let RH shaft them over RPM. Of there is also meltdown of Caldera's QA/test department, the SCO buyout and of course, Ransome's approving of Microsoft FUD and Ransome's latest blooper on per-seat Linux licenses.
Love never understood the OpenSource movement or the GPL, and probably never understood how to run a company either. It's amazing Caldera has been around for so long with the CEO consistently doing the Wrong Thing [tm].
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Re:Sherman Antitrust Act, anyone?True enough, but if you look at this chart, MSFT seems to begoing almost exactly
While Im sure MSFT influences that index, its more then just ine stock.
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Re:Sherman Antitrust Act, anyone?From a high of $120 in December of 1999, they are now at $66... I certainly wouldn't call that "basically recovered". Check www.nasdaq.com, stock symbol MSFT, and ask for a 2 year chart...
does this look "recovered" to you?
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Re:hypocrisySo do stock market investors not RTFA? MS's stock is up 5%. It doesn't seem like MS is that much better off.
MSFT is up 5% because everybody's stock is up 5%. The NASDAQ-100 heatmaps are almost solid green across the board. And Sun and Oracle, two of the would-be losers in this judgment, are outpacing MSFT's gains.
It's difficult to tell whether this is exuberance over the 25-point price cut earlier this week, or today's ruling, or some other factor. However, MSFT investors appear to be just following the herd, and not jubilantly celebrating.
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Cash preservation
This is probably also a cash-preservation measure. Think about it.... there's a certain inventory ($8 million and rising as of 4/28), and now it can be sold without being replaced. By liquidating their hardware inventory, they generate enough cash to keep the doors open for a few more months.
A quick look at the financials suggests that VA is quickly running out of cash.
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Interesting...
As part of the settlement, Microsoft will have all trademark rights to "Xbox," which is the name of Microsoft's new video game console system, and XBOX Technologies has agreed, in due course, to change its corporate name.
Interesting
Here's the link to see the price of their stock
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realistic proposal
TuxBox crew pledges to do what Indrema failed to do -- bring a Linux gaming/multipurpose console to market.
What they should do is approach some of the gaming companies for assistance on the project. One of the failures I saw on Indrema (why it lost funding or hopes of funding) fell into expecting some VC to back them, which we know from stats, won't happen for some time.The company's founders should have approached a game developer with their idea along with the statistics (or expected analysis) of what they forsaw in terms of users. (which in turn create revenue)
Even a game company no matter which platform they created for would have had to take a look at the marketability for the product, unless MS bullied them
The TuxBox team believes they can have a console ready to sell, with several game titles available, by this fall, even though they haven't been able to salvage any code from Indrema. That goal could sound unrealistic, or even cocky, but the project's founders are approaching the task with a matter-of-fact determination and a passion for creating a better gaming console.
Thats a lousy way for the developers to put it "better gaming console", since their underlying job is to bring out a gaming console, and when you have little by way of revenue, going up against heavy hitting marketing teams like that of MS' xbox is a killer in itself.Instead of being arrogant about it, the company should just do whatever it takes, then brag later.
"We want to allow people to develop for a video game system that may not have enough money to develop for another big name system," Riley says. "Our development kit will be free and allow anyone to develop for us."
Again, I hope these guys get it right this time around, and pull together from managing the entire project, from the upper level teamwork to actually getting the code right. (not that it was wrong the first time)The plan is to have 20 to 30 games, a combination of freeware and commercial titles, ready for the TuxBox when it's available to buy, and the TuxBox team hopes to offer at least one commercial game with the console. Games being developed for Indrema should have little difficulty transferring to the TuxBox, Isley and Riley say.
Slightly bad move, what they should do is make cheap games say uner $10.00 US. Lets face it the thought of free my sound inspiring, but it won't you you far, however it will make you broke really fast. Create a pay pal account and have users of their games give what they can under $10.00 (US) this way they have some form of revenue to keep their business afloat, and away from dying as fast as Indrema did.Riley says having a good number of freeware games is a major advantage TuxBox will have over its big competitors such as Playstation, and another is the attraction of being able to create your own games.
Sigh... Going up against a heavy hitter such as Playstation is way far fetched. Even mentioning them when your first project wen to shit makes the whole project laughable. They need to focus on their own product, get it up and running. Talk is cheap."No system out there currently, or coming out, will suit my needs for what I want in a console: freeware games; a free community; develop and distribute your own games for free," Riley says.
This does little for this who are keen to playing games they're familiar with. Again why not approach some of the game developers with an idea of porting all games to their box, and a small price. Everyone makes money, and everyone can look forward to playing games with familiarity as well as propietary games.Think about it Zelda X on this machine would rock, and everyone would enjoy it, money would be made, the company wouldn't end up on fuckedcompany.com before it even launched.
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Re:No surprises.
The real reason portal sites die, is that there useless.
I think the fundamental problem for portal sites is that they try to be all things to everyone and that's simply not possible. If I want to search I go to Google. If I want news I come here, or if I want something more general I go to NewsHub. If I want stock quotes I go to Nasdaq. I don't understand why portal operators think I would want it all on one page.
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Um, no.
Yahoo is not the Internet. Regardless of whether it is acquired, there will always be "unwalled gardens" on the Internet. Granted, an acquisition of Yahoo would be damaging to the free Internet community, but it would not cripple it. For a search engine, people would have Google, for messaging, AIM (yeah, not the best example), ICQ, etc. For e-mail, there are all sorts of providers, such as MyRealBox and a certain "secure" e-mail service that I will not name. News is available everywhere. Stock quotes can be had at the NASDAQ site. I'd go on, but Yahoo has grown to provide everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink.
My point is that there is nothing that Yahoo has that isn't also available elsewhere for free. The free Internet idea would not be destroyed if Yahoo was acquired. -
Re:Market Watch?
One problem. The market is not responding to anything right now. Go take a look at cisco at www.nasdaq.com they will show you a company doing well tha is getting murdered.
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Where can you find a list of these companies?Actually, there's a list published every day:
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The market seems to like it
As cruel as it sounds, Corel's stock price went up today on news Cowpland is out.
I've been expecting this for a while. Corel has had many blunders in recent years. Word Perfect has pretty much lost the entire ground to MS Office, except the Linux version of course.
Does anyone remember the attempt to produce a Java version of the Office Suite?? At the end it got shelved, what a waste of money and manpower. And then there was the merger with Borland that went up in flames.
That was probably the coup de grâce Corel. With sadness with my heart because of all the good things Michael did to Corel back in the early days, the company is better off without him.
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Rambus stock dropping today
I am not sure, but I believe Rambus stock is dropping quite a lot today. At this moment, it's down by some 5% compared to yesterday
Of course, I may be mistaken. Look for yourself at Nasdaq:RMBS
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Broken URL
Sorry for that one.
But I did check the URL in the preview before posting. I swear it!
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Translation please?What does this mean in human-readable and international terms? I am no US layer.
Why is this a victory for the giant software manufacturer?Anyway, their Victory is not that clear to me. We'll see what the next days will reveal.
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Bug bit, then Bugzilla crashes MozillaWith the 4.7 Netscape on Linux, going to Nasdaq.com and trying to get Info Quotes on a few stocks by entering the symbols and hitting the button sometimes makes the browser disappear. On today's build of Mozilla it always crashes the browser (as in, disappears from screen) - this on two different systems (one Red Hat, one Mandrake, both KDE). Trying to submit a Bugzilla report on this to the Mozilla team also makes Mozilla disappear.
Okay, only tried the last thing once. The first was totally reproducable though. Probably bad JavaScript on Nasdaq. But it's bad form for a browser to just give up like that. And on Bugzilla, too?
Other than that, it looks like it's taking a number of welcome leaps forward.
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Barron's article badly flawedApparently the Barron's article is based on a study done by Pegasus Research International. Pegasus basically compared the "burn rate" of some internet companies with the amount of cash they had on hand. They found that some had only a few months worth of cash left, which seems problematic.
However, Pegasus seems to have overlooked some fairly important issues. Chiefly, investments. Most companies avoid keeping massive amounts of cash on hand simply because it's much better off invested in the stock market. See, for example, VerticalNet 's response. When investments are taken into account, at least some of the companies are much better off than the study suggests.
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BSD, Linux, NT, who cares -- it's an applianceI used to work for FreeGate, a competitor to then Whistle, now IBM. Noone cares what kind of OS is running underneath unless you're a die hard techno-weenie. These things are built to be black boxes. The use of open source OS's is helping build an industry by lowering the cost of goods sold (and maybe entry costs, but that's a very big debate).
What annoys the hell out of me is that Cobalt made a killing in the stock market selling blue colored Linux boxes with practically no value added (unless you really like blue). In comparison, Interjets and OneGates have a lot of extra features that you can't get anywhere eles. But who gets the ridiculous valuation?
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Or how about...
Haddock, Salmon, Pike, Bass, Cod, Tuna
I knew this kid named Jimmy when I was growing up. Jimmy was, how shold I put it... "Special". Jimmy loved to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's why I think pb & j is the appropriate smell for these guys
Nervous sweat is the smell for these guys and these guys too
For these guys it's obvious, rocket fuel.
And in the same spirit, that vomitey, greasy, sugarey, metallic smell you find near big rollercoasters for them
And the muddy, porcine smell you'd find around that prize-winning heiffer that just keeps eating and getting bigger for these freaks. Of course you know that animal is the main ingredient for the spiced ham smell that you'd find here
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Just the portfolio?
If you're just looking to track your stock holdings, money market funds, and that kind of thing and don't mind devoting a few minutes to actually building the information by hand, NASDAQ offers a portfolio tracking service for free on their site. I believe it's a cookie/java solution, so if you're frequently changing pc's or browsers, you might be SOL, but it's fairly simple and straightforward. I haven't played with it in a while, but recall asking them to include long-term growth charts for personal portfolios (like they have for individual stocks), so this might be extant by now.
Rafe
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Too late to discuss Andover.net's impending IPO.
By the time you had posted, the Wednesday market was closed; the Andover.net IPO is a done deal.
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SCO stockSCO (SCOC) info can be found at nasdaq.com. This pdf from nasdaq claims they have a market cap of only 279 million US dollars. Damn! That's not a lot for any big company to swallow. Why Sun doesn't buy them is beyond me, I just fix things there.
Also, the owners who have more than 5% stake are:
- MS 12.3%
- Novell 13.8%
- L Michaels 9.2%
- D michaels 11.2%
I don't have time to read their by-laws, but if someone tenures an offer and the majority of stockholders vote to accept, it usually doesn't matter what one investor thinks or wants.
_damnit_ - MS 12.3%
