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Software Imaging Systems (SIS) growth ~40% per annum over the last 4 years! Pretty impressive - I’m sure that a lot of that s attributable to increased platform openness and also adoption of the subscription model.
Given that the buyer is a fund management group, all kinds of things are possible that will have nothing to do with running a business. They might spin off the software division as a separate company, they might keep things running as they are or they might simply cannibalize the entire operation and sell it off in small pieces. It's always a roll of the dice with these types of fund management groups.Good to see the software side making decent profits - Media Pro upgrades are 50% more expensive so that's where some of it has come from! I think they made a mistake getting rid of Media Pro, instead of investing a bit into it to make it 64 bit. It really is unique - and very important to some of us. I also think the presence of big money in a company means shareholders and profits are often put ahead of customers. Just look at the mess they are making with the IQ4150 firmware. I wonder also if it was a strategic mistake not to introduce a mirrorless version of the XF. Fuji are going to take sales that might have gone to Phase.
Mmmm, not quite I think. The actual definition is "value-free," so that while its first meaning is usually that it is a point open to discussion or debate [not necessarily that it is to be, or needs to be, discussed, but only that it is open], and its second that its practical relevance is low because it is too uncertain on which to base a decision [like the first meaning, so open to discussion as to be uncertain]. Not truly a contronym, as the two meanings have their root in the same concept. Now, "sanction," there's a contronym, one that has perplexed me to the point of mootness since childhood.(Moot is one of those funny words - contranym, I think. It has two meanings which are opposite. A moot point is both a point to be discussed AND a point not worth discussing.)
I'm a descriptivist. Yes, this is as :OT: as they come.Mmmm, not quite I think. The actual definition is "value-free," so that while its first meaning is usually that it is a point open to discussion or debate [not necessarily that it is to be, or needs to be, discussed, but only that it is open], and its second that its practical relevance is low because it is too uncertain on which to base a decision [like the first meaning, so open to discussion as to be uncertain]. Not truly a contronym, as the two meanings have their root in the same concept. Now, "sanction," there's a contronym, one that has perplexed me to the point of mootness since childhood.
And yes, today I am "that guy," while the temp soars above 100 and I try to bird-dog an odd light leak in my IQ4.150.
And now I’m ROTFLMAO! Love it. A little humor and a little Pinot go a long way. OT indeed.I'm a descriptivist. Yes, this is as :OT: as they come.
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Matt
And sanction is a good one. I once saw a sign saying "No permitted vehicles allowed." That took me a LONG time to figure out.