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[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:57:56PM -0400, dep wrote:
>begin  Net Llama!'s  quote:
>
>| Caldera has been doing 'silent' restructing for over a year now,
>| and it hasn't shown a bit of progress in moving out of the red.
>|
>| I almost take this announcement as an act of desperation, where
>| they're saying "Hey remember us, we're trying to stop the bleeding,
>| so please buy from us".
>|
>| I wonder if Caldera will exist a year from now.
>
>fyi, i've got a piece on it up now:
>
>http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56
>
>layoffs were today. also, the revenues represent a loss of 23 cents 
>per share.

And the $0.79 per share is after a 1/4 reverse split making the wonderful
``Friends and Family'' IPO price of $14.00/share more like $56.00/share for
comparison purposes (the good part for me is that my wife was annoyed that
I hadn't taken advantage of the Red Hat offer, and she was the one who
pushed to make sure we didn't miss the Caldera IPO :-).

Bill
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