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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:35:35 GMT
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- aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >Can you name a product ever made by a successful company which DIDN'T
- >keep track of product development costs (as opposed to pure research)
- >and assign those costs to the product? Outside government, you won't.
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- Hmmm. I remember hearing that Xerox bought SDS for a billion dollars
- - this would be about 1970. I heard later that Xerox had paid about
- twice what it was worth. Apparently SDS had been taking R&D costs and
- writing them into the books as assets, ie as if it had purchased
- capital equipment with the money.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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