Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product

[Richard Piper]

 From this link: http://www.hoovers.com/quarterlies/0/0,2167,14120,00.html
Microsoft had USD5.1 BILLION in CASH with another USD4.2 BILLION in net 
receivables in Mar 2002. No short term debt. No long term debt.

I'd like to be have those problems
Rick Piper

At 12:04 PM 6/14/2003 -0500, jim wrote:
>Actually, MS may not have all that money.  Consider that a major part of 
>their
>compensation package to their employees is in the form of options to purchase
>stock from the company.  If it looks like MS stock is going to fall, those
>employees might decide to exercise those options and resell the stock on the
>market which would cause the stock price to crash.  Think Enron.  Imagine the
>effect on all the pension funds, mutual funds, etc. that are heavily invested
>in the supposedly safe MS stocks and it's not hard to see lawsuits and other
>nasty stuff.  The really bad thing is that the stock options are not required
>to be reported to the SEC, so outside investors can't know how much their
>ownership of MS stock might be diluted.
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