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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <rhoward.725158752@matd>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:59:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.040309.43063@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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- sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
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- >In article <BzoG15.21q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- > writes:
- >>
- >>And do you know how big this market share is? In 1991, MS received
- >>about 25% of the total profit of all software sold. No other company
- >>is even close to this amount of profit per total market sales.
-
- >Where did you get these figures? In 1991, IBM made slightly more than 10
- >billion dollars in gross revenue from software alone. MS made apporximately 2
- >billion and some change. How do you figure that MS made 25% of all profit
- >when they made 1/5 of what IBM did?
-
- Okay, write on the blackboard 500 times...
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- "Gross revenue does NOT equal earnings"
-
- If IBM had a 5% profit margin on 10 billion, they made 500 million.
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- If MS had a 25% profit margin on 2 billion, they made 500 million.
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- See how that works? Good, I knew you could figure it out....
-
- Robert
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