Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ asj ] on Thursday 01 June 2006 02:03 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060531/microsoft_ballmer.html?.v=4
> >>
> >> MSFT down another 2.16% yesterday. Sad. Very sad.
> >
> > I suggest not getting sad about a company which has $33 billion in the
> > bank.
> >
> > Microsoft is not going away any time soon. It will be a force on the
> > desktop, servers, and perhaps other systems for a very long time to
> > come. We can only try to "cage" it, never kill it off completely.
>
> Well, I was being sarcastic. Truthfully, Microsoft will not die overnight.
> But it struggles already. It is beyond the point of feeling just the pinch
> of Linux. Google joined the party as well. IBM recommend Linux to their
> clients... and the list goes on and on. Grim Outlook (2007).
>
And yet it's Microsoft that is hiring all the time.
This May 2006 article talks of Microsoft hiring 12,000 new employees
(and that's just in its Redmond/Bellevue WA area).
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/270311_msftbellevue16.html
While Sun lays off 5000 employees, according to this May 2006 article:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2006/05/31/sun-wed.html
In human terms, it's realy hirings and layoffs that tell the true state
of a company (not stock price, which involves speculation, "beating
expectations", and other such marlarky).
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