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May 2002

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WMS has announced its results for the year to 31 December, with a pretax loss before exceptional charges and goodwill of £4.6m on sales of £12.0m (£0.7m licences and £11.3m professional services). The results are in stark contrast to those reported for 2000 when WMS made a pretax profit of £0.95m on sales of £15.5m (licences £4.3m and professional services £11.2m) and show the high margin nature of software sales. At the start of the year, management hadanticipated selling £9m licences for LISA and its resources in termsof salesmen and developers, had been geared up to meet anticipateddemand. As the year progressed, potential customers either delayed orcancelled major investments in software. Various cost cutting me ...

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