Re: Kodak

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I may be old fashioned, but I think it is a shame that companies like
> Kodak are not seen as being in the business of producing their special
> products, but rather in producing shareholder dividends.  It places their
> products and technologies in a secondary (or terciary) place resulting
> in the discontinuance of good and useful products, not because their
> production looses money, but because it does not make MORE.

First of all, I don't think this is a fair comment, considering that
Kodak still provides mounting of realist format slides.  Most any other
company probably would have dumped it decades ago.  And probably did.
Does the David White company still mount slides like they used to?

Kodak may certainly be messed up in various ways, but products and services
that don't make money still consumes internal capital and costs them lost
opportunities.  If one can drop ten customers, making them unhappy, but using
that resource gain 50 other customers, making them delighted -- is this bad?

Note that companies that aren't profitable die.  Vast majority of companies 
in the U.S. *do* die, and it's for that reason.

Mike K.


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