Mikey Saylor at MSTR can "manufacture" whatever results he wants.. no position now but it's a shame that a company with a good product is run by a corrupt management team. The whole concept of 'percentage of completion' accounting is lost on these crooks. And the thought that maintenance revs should be allocated ratably over a software license life is deemed 'unnecessary' since there's no post sale service costs. Service is treated as R&D and that development expense jumps all over the place. Talk to competitors like BOBJ and they will say that the FUD (Sales term- "fear, uncertanity and doubt") behind this company is unprecedented. "In our NEXT release, all your problems will be solved!"
This is the future poster fraud for the Computer Associates Software Ethics Award...