Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ncar!gatech!mcnc!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <1991Mar25.025756.9345@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Mar 91 02:57:56 GMT References: <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> <1762@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> <1991Mar24.235110.12843@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 19 >>> 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's not a slash if sales went up suddenly. Do you have those figures, too? Also, we'd need to know R&D vs sales for each quarter. Three quarters may or may not have been long enough to change their R&D thinking. Since I'm no expert in these financial matters, perhaps someone could also post percentages common to other companies. I've heard before (here?) that 8% is more the norm, but do not know. Anyone? thx! kevin PS: Funny. If R&D vs sales had gone UP, I'd bet half the posters would be arguing the other side of things, eh? :-) :-) Such is life.