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To: Kashish King who wrote (9531)3/21/1998 3:12:00 AM
From: Bill Tucker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10836
 
<HP revenues and earnings: 500 million, 100 million> ???

Is this your estimate of some portion of their total revenues?

I believe these exceed 44 Billion for the latest 4Q's.



To: Kashish King who wrote (9531)3/21/1998 4:36:00 AM
From: shane forbes  Respond to of 10836
 
RE: HP revenues and earnings: 500 million, 100 million

Huh? Hewlett Packard is HUGE - MUCH MUCH bigger than SUNW!!!

Yes I do agree that the Reuters story about HP Java is weird. Looks like they are not at all "reinventing" Java the way MSFT did. I'm just amazed at some of the published comments I have seen about this story. Looks like there are a lot of confused reporters and analysts around.

More news:

It is just the Java VM:
techweb.com

Shane.



To: Kashish King who wrote (9531)3/21/1998 8:32:00 AM
From: i-node  Respond to of 10836
 
HP revenues and earnings: 500 million, 100 million

Sounds a little low. Could it be you're leaving out the revenue from computer-related products, test equipment, medical systems, hardware, and software? Maybe just picking up the income from sales of used toner cartridges for the Laserjet I....