Asia is the epicenter of sourcing and manufacturing. They have so many different types of suppliers. |
Aspect concentrates on the high-end of the market, but even at the high-end there's a number of initiatives under way by other companies. |
Management has failed to give a consistent reason for his absence. |
Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues. |
The company beat our revenue expectation by $33 million, which is a huge upside surprise. All the financial metrics were extremely solid. Their balance sheet was spotless, and deferred revenue rose to $84.6 million from $46.7 million in the previous quarter, which shows that their backlog continues to strengthen. |
We believe Salesforce.com had a strong finish to their fiscal 2006, driven by robust subscriber additions in both [small- and medium-sized business] and enterprise customer segments. |
We expect sluggish sales in the first half of 2006 due to a continuation of calendar 2005 themes. |
We forecast strong spending on software applications in calendar year 2001. But the priority stack has shifted towards supply chain/B2B collaboration and select areas of CRM/content management. We believe the heavy damage is already done. While we can't call the absolute bottom, we believe we are nearing the trough. |
While losing a talented individual like Evans is not good news, we believe his departure will not have an impact on financial results and is not a leading indicator of additional departures. |
While we think these issues will be short lived, Salesforce.com need to address them aggressively, in our view. |