Wildfire 2: Any reactions?

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- hamei
  
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19 years ago

Mon, Jul 5, 2004 1:29 AM

Seems as if most old-time software companies have this problem. The other problem they have is a total disconnect with reality on the subject of prices. Perhaps that's one reason there are very very few of the original $100-for-a-printscreen-utility software companies alive today. They tend to leave their snotty heads up their snotty asses until they go bankrupt.

Same problem IBM had in the early eighties, and look what happened to THEM.

I hope PTC can avoid that fate. They could start out by lining their sales team against a wall and shooting them. Then finding the people who devised the patented PTC High-Pressure Plan and publicly beheading *them*.

Not likely to happen tho :-(

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19 years ago

Tue, Jul 6, 2004 3:30 PM

Their annual report says something a little different. While the last I

I have their 2003 Annual Report in my hand, and actually in 2001 they had net revenue for licenses of $366M and for maintenance of $307M, or roughly a 55/45 split in favor of licenses. Last year it was $194M for licenses and $259M for maintenance, or a complete reversal to

43/57. Obviously, if they want to increase profits and new license sales are stagnant, they have to reduce the cost of the service side of the equation, which is considerable (cost of service was $207M last year; gross service receipts wer $466M).

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