Let's face reality. That is the way business is exercised nowadays. I fully agree that it should not be that way, but there are certain points that enforce that behaviour. Hordes of shareholders demanding better results and higher profits every quarter are one side of the coin. Nobody believes that Microsoft will be able to keep its profits rising within the same industry for years and years. The aim is to increase the amonunt of industries and therefore increase the opportunities to push the Net Income even further above. No need to tell you that MSFT hat an income of $9.27 billion on sales of $30.0billion. Now it is your duty to show me a way to increase profits without increasing sales....
Summing up - The aim of Microsoft is to increase profits - no matter which methods they use. Time for the govt to step into the ring and show them what they are allowed to do and what they aren't.
I particularly enjoy the mixture between the slashdot-story and the.NET advertisment by microsoft below it. Makes a pretty nice impression on me. What do you want to mix today?
According to a few reports on the Internet, Google is profitable, whereas, ASKJ is still in the red. Although they decreased net loss by 95% they're still doing bad. I guess the CEO of ASKJ had a thought similar to: "What income sources does Google have? Are there any we could imitate? Well, let's do so and hope we'll join the ranks of profitable dotcom's!"
...something regarding the Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordreference.com - Although it is just accessible for paying users, this looks pretty nice as well. Imagine browsing around all that high-quality information without having to dig through books of thousands of pages. Let me sum up : "100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books into a single cross-searchable web database for the first time.
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Let's face reality. That is the way business is exercised nowadays. I fully agree that it should not be that way, but there are certain points that enforce that behaviour. Hordes of shareholders demanding better results and higher profits every quarter are one side of the coin. Nobody believes that Microsoft will be able to keep its profits rising within the same industry for years and years. The aim is to increase the amonunt of industries and therefore increase the opportunities to push the Net Income even further above. No need to tell you that MSFT hat an income of $9.27 billion on sales of $30.0billion. Now it is your duty to show me a way to increase profits without increasing sales....
Summing up - The aim of Microsoft is to increase profits - no matter which methods they use. Time for the govt to step into the ring and show them what they are allowed to do and what they aren't.
I particularly enjoy the mixture between the slashdot-story and the .NET advertisment by microsoft below it. Makes a pretty nice impression on me. What do you want to mix today?
According to a few reports on the Internet, Google is profitable, whereas, ASKJ is still in the red. Although they decreased net loss by 95% they're still doing bad. I guess the CEO of ASKJ had a thought similar to: "What income sources does Google have? Are there any we could imitate? Well, let's do so and hope we'll join the ranks of profitable dotcom's!"
...something regarding the Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordreference.com - Although it is just accessible for paying users, this looks pretty nice as well. Imagine browsing around all that high-quality information without having to dig through books of thousands of pages. Let me sum up : "100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books into a single cross-searchable web database for the first time. "