[ale] OT: The 401 Keg Plan (New Years Cheer)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:48 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> (this has a techno angle and an Atlanta connection, so it's not too far
> OT.... it also mentions beer)
> 
> 
> 
> If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
> now be worth $49.00.
> 
> With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
> 
> With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
> 
> If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
> $49.00 left.
> 
> But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
> all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND
> you would have $214.00.
> 
> Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
> heavily and recycle.
> 
> 
If it had been $1k of RedHat stock you would have $924 in RedHat stock.

$1k of Google stock would yield $1430 at the end of 2007.

$1k of Microsoft would sell out at $1194 on Dec. 31 2007.

$1k of Novell would yield $1073.

Redhat purchased closed source code and open sourced it.

Goggle does who knows what with the data they collect.

Microsoft released Vista.

Novell does the "license tango" with Microsoft.

SCO closed as $0.09 and has been delisted. As such I can't even pull up
their stock value last January!
> 
> 
> Happy New Year everyone  :-)
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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