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Red Hat Reports (tiny) Loss, Revenue Slip
Futurepower(tm) was one of the first to write with the news Red Hat reports loss, revenue slips, via Infoworld. Szulik ? is right in his statement that compared to what's going on in the overall technology segment, RH is doing a good job.
Here's a cheap one for you. And if I remember correctly from last time I was in a CompUSA store, 7.0 was even cheaper.
No, not really. Most of those one time items were intangibles.
See, when a company buys another company, the premium they pay to what the assets of the company are is called goodwill. This goodwill is considered an asset on the buying company's balance sheet. The goodwill gets "used up" over a few years, and gets expensed off, that is, deducted against income (amortizing).
In other words, most of it wasn't "real" money. The only important one-time charges were the severance expenses, that was real tangible money that had to come from somewhere.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.