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		<title>By: MSTR: MicroStrategy Looking More Micro, Less Strategic - Stock Market Beat - Our beat: The stock market. Our job: Beat it.</title>
		<link>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-28926</link>
		<author>MSTR: MicroStrategy Looking More Micro, Less Strategic - Stock Market Beat - Our beat: The stock market. Our job: Beat it.</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Analysts were expecting the company to earn $1.27 on $81 million in sales, so this was quite a miss. The license revenue they lost is both highly profitable and a key driver of future services growth. MicroStrategy thus joins BEA Systems (BEAS) among those hardest hit by the weak corporate spending on equipment and software. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Analysts were expecting the company to earn $1.27 on $81 million in sales, so this was quite a miss. The license revenue they lost is both highly profitable and a key driver of future services growth. MicroStrategy thus joins BEA Systems (BEAS) among those hardest hit by the weak corporate spending on equipment and software. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Important Growth Indicators for Software Companies - Financial Education - Everything You Need To Know About Finance</title>
		<link>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-18638</link>
		<author>Important Growth Indicators for Software Companies - Financial Education - Everything You Need To Know About Finance</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This article originally appeared at Stock Market Beat and is reprinted here with the author&#8217;s permission. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] This article originally appeared at Stock Market Beat and is reprinted here with the author&#8217;s permission. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Sorting Symantec&#8217;s Mess - Stock Market Beat - Our beat is the stock market. Our job is to beat it.</title>
		<link>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-10852</link>
		<author>Sorting Symantec&#8217;s Mess - Stock Market Beat - Our beat is the stock market. Our job is to beat it.</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-10852</guid>
		<description>[...] As we have discussed in the past, an increase in deferred revenue simply means the company has taken in cash from customers for services to be delivered in the future. Although recognized as a liability it is generally a good thing as it provides visibility into future revenue. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] As we have discussed in the past, an increase in deferred revenue simply means the company has taken in cash from customers for services to be delivered in the future. Although recognized as a liability it is generally a good thing as it provides visibility into future revenue. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Stock Market Beat &#187; Blog Archive &#187; SAP Fails to Let Results Speak for Themselves</title>
		<link>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-4372</link>
		<author>Stock Market Beat &#187; Blog Archive &#187; SAP Fails to Let Results Speak for Themselves</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-4372</guid>
		<description>[...] Getting back to the boring side of things however, we will note that 15% growth in license revenue is quite good. As we have written before, license revenues are an imporant indicator of future growth for software companies. And while Oracle&#8217;s self-reported organic license growth was 47% in the latest quarter, some analysts have called that into question. Oracle reported application license sales grew 80 percent in the first quarter. Stripping out sales from Siebel and other recent acquisitions, application license sales gained 47 percent, Oracle said. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Getting back to the boring side of things however, we will note that 15% growth in license revenue is quite good. As we have written before, license revenues are an imporant indicator of future growth for software companies. And while Oracle&#8217;s self-reported organic license growth was 47% in the latest quarter, some analysts have called that into question. Oracle reported application license sales grew 80 percent in the first quarter. Stripping out sales from Siebel and other recent acquisitions, application license sales gained 47 percent, Oracle said. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of Investing #22 on InvestorGeeks</title>
		<link>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-7</link>
		<author>Carnival of Investing #22 on InvestorGeeks</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 02:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2006/05/08/important-growth-indicators-for-software-companies/#comment-7</guid>
		<description>[...] Important Growth Indicators for Software Companies [...]</description>
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