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Technology Stocks : LBRT - Liberate
LBRT 18.55-0.1%Dec 24 12:59 PM EST

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To: BRA who wrote (385)11/27/2001 10:34:59 PM
From: pheilman_   of 409
 
In addition, the company is taking severe measures to reduce burn rate. Raises are on hold, and travel is minimized.

The $250 million in the bank will help ride through this rough patch as contracts are established. Their current major buyers are in Europe as the cable companies are competing with satellite providers. In the US the cable operators are cheap.

In the old gorilla concept, the company is very aware that their long term success is based on developing a platform for others to build on. Their other winning strategy is to enable the lowest cheapest set top box, Microsoft can't run on these low end boxes. And as Cable operators are cheap, the vast majority of set top boxes are low end.
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