__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 19 January 2007 17:27 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:14:16 +0000
> <12855353.o7c00JtnlT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Linux Certification: Vendor-Specific or Vendor Neutral?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Talk to anyone who follows hiring trends in IT and they'll tell
>> | you the same thing: having Linux proficiency is growing
>> | increasingly important in getting and keeping a job in IT.
>> `----
>>
>> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3654606
>>
>> Why tie your certification to a single company that's struggling (e.g.
>> MSCE)?
>
> Not sure "struggling" is quite the right word here.
>
> Yet.
> :-)
>
> But at present MSFT is near its 52-week high. (Go figure!)
> And its operating margin is at 39.38% (though I'm not sure
> it's reported yet). RHT's, by contrast, is at 15.05%,
> and is currently trading at 21.69, nowhere near its 52week
> high of 32.48 (but not near its low of 13.70, either).
>
> Still...there's something on the wall here; could be writing. :-)
>
> [rest snipped for brevity]
The value os the stock says very little. They are pumping billions into it
ATM.
A Dozen Stocks For '07
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| Millen also thinks $36 billion in planned share buybacks
| will help the stock.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/05/stocks-markets-investing-pf-ii-cz_ag_1205stockpicks.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yjzfbo
Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions
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| Microsoft in 1999 announced that it would end a policy of awarding
| options at monthly lows and said it would take a $217 million charge,
| though many details of that discontinued practice haven't been widely
| known, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
|
| Those details raise questions about how Microsoft began the practice,
| what prompted the company to end it and whether the way the options
| were dated--at 30-day lows the month after they were
| granted--influenced other companies, it said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6084617.html
Microsoft counts on Vista to recharge stagnant stock
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| There was a time in the 1990s when shares of Microsoft stock seemed to
| double every couple of years. 1996: college for the kids. 1998: a place
| on Whidbey. 1999: early retirement.
|
| Times have changed.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003437957_vista19.html
Commentary: Microsoft needs more than just buybacks to lift its shares
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| Microsoft shares, which have been dormant for the last few years,
| have been looking up over the last couple months. The Dow industrials
| component has gained about 20% since hitting a 4-year low of $21.46 o
| June 13.
|
| To help move things along, Microsoft not only launched a $40 billion
| stock repurchase program that lasts through 2011, the company also said
| its previously announced 4-year, $30 billion stock buyback program was
| completed in just 2 years.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B685EFB89%2D5791%2D4E8B%2DAD6A%2D9688F5B6012A%7D&source=blq%2Fyhoo&dist=yhoo&siteid=yhoo
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