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EMC profits down - but it is a profit

Looking at the final quarter and full year numbers, laid-off EMC workers could be thinking that they didn't need to be fired at all. The company made a full year profit (GAAP net income) of $1.35bn, $288m of that in the final quarter, when demand dropped like a stone. Final calendar quarter 2008 (Q4 08) revenues amounted to $4. …

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unbiased article?

I don't think so...but at least it means I don't have to read EMCs marketing spin. It's here in El-Reg colours.

Get those lips puckered-up !

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