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To: hueyone who wrote (17847)	1/15/2003 4:36:02 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (2) of 19079

After spending time consulting for a software firm, I'd have to disagree. Licensing provides long term revenues, and transparency with regard to the majority of future revenues. It also provides great incentives for cost savings, since you can tell how to allocate your resources to benefit the most from changes in the market. I'd say that companies that don't adhere to good business practices are vulnerable, but that tech (primarily software) is in a better position than most other industries to avoid having problems. Whether their management is good enough to do that is quite another question. I think that last sentence goes a long way to supporting my next comment, which is that I agree on the options issue. Most companies that are overburdened by options are in a bad place. Not because they are in a bad business, but because their management was pretty dang stupid.

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