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- From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
- Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.223244.16776@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:32:44 GMT
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> mjsagar@sandia.gov (Mathias J Sagartz) writes:
- >>From the Wall Street Journal 11/6/92
-
- >> Revenue dropped more than 22% to $158.6 million from 204.1 million.
-
- > Strange that this comes only a couple of weeks after Apple announced that
- >it had broken IBM's record in the personal computer industry by shipping
- >2 million systems in one year. Why is Commodore getting hit by almost 25%
- >reductions in sales, while Apple Computer is reporting record sales?
-
- Where did Marc learn arithmetic? 22% is closer to 20% than 25%! Yes,
- the reduction in revenue is bad for Commodore, but talk about a biased
- view! Also, why doesn't Marc compare apples to apples? Comparing item
- sales with revenue is useless without knowing the item cost.
-
- GRRH! Why am I dumb enough to reply to a Marc Barrett article? I need
- to get my head examined.
-
- Soh Kam Hung, Network Management Research, | h.soh@trl.oz.au
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