Firefox Founders: "We want to make money..." 10168

I don't know. You don't know and the SEC doesn't know. So it's clearly not correct for someone to claim they are "75% or more." All we do know is what the overall profit margins are. Same holds true for other companies. We don't know how much profit McDonalds makes on a Big-Mac versus a large fries.

My guess is yes. It was the Y2K scare but also the mbuttive hysteria surrounding the internet. They were selling development tools, server licenses and probably lots of Office so that all the dot-com startups could create PowerPoint presentations for investors.

All software companies were selling products left and right so I image that you'd same the same "blip" with Sun, Oracle and etc. (okay... I just checked. Sun and Oracle both had the same peak in 99-00. In 2000 Oracle had profit margins of 62.2%.)

I'm always up for a guess. What's your guess? I heard your opinion of 99-00 but you're hush about 04. My guess is that it was a slow period in their product cycle. No new products were released unlike previous years where they had Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Xbox, etc. I don't think there was anything new to drive sales.