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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (11783)7/26/1998 2:51:00 AM
From: umbro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
The Bore vs. the Bimbo
On Technology, by Fred Moody
[ URL: abcnews.com ]

[ on the relative valuations of Visio vs. Amazon ]

an excerpt:

As various software and Internet companies have been
issuing their quarterly earnings reports over the past few
days, it has been nearly impossible not to think of the
nation's shareholders as ruinously bewitched husbands,
companies making real products and turning real profits as
abandoned old wives and Internet companies as wily
bimbos with nothing to offer but their allure.


....

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To look at the comparative valuation of Amazon.com and
Visio, you would think that the former was a profit machine
even more prolific than Microsoft, and that the latter was
barely breaking even. But Visio has consistently
outperformed Amazon.com in every respect but at the
gaming tables.