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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 05:58:03 GMT

In article <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>
>   It has been slashed as a percentage of total sales.  For the fiscal
>year 1990, Commodore invested 3.5% of their total sales in research and
>development.  According to Commodore's Third Quarter Report, for the
>first three quarters of fiscal year 1991, Commodore invested 2.2%
>(approximately) of their total sales in research and devlopment.  If
>this is not a slash, I don't know what is.
>
	It is already obvious that you don't know what you are
talking about cause you don't even know when Commodore's Fiscal
quarters are. Commodore's "year" goes from July through June.
That makes the third quarter Jan-Mar and they haven't released
one of those since third quarter of their last year. Also,
Commodore had an enormous increase in sales, both last Christmas
and last fall (Jul-Sep). R&D spending is spent well in advance
(contracts and all). Now, if that R&D doesn't go up this Jan-Mar
quarter, which is 1 1/2 months or so from release, then I'll
begin to worry. But, although I don't doubt your percentages, I
have no idea what quarters they refer to and if they refer to the
Jul-Dec quarters all I can say is the Christmas quarter is their
largest and you can't expect more to be spent come Christmas and
then they cut back in January. And sales, as I say, increased,
up 50% or so from the prior year.

>                                   -MB-
>
	-- Ethan


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