Maintain Proven Symbol, Intermec, HHP Mobile Computers in Tough Business Climate

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This quote from a breaking news piece on Microsoft's big layoff announcement (5000 jobs cut) in today's New York Times, but it could be from about any day over the last quarter or so:

". . . Blaming market uncertainty, Microsoft declined to issue a revenue or earnings forecast for the rest of its fiscal year.

'We are planning for economic uncertainty to continue through the remainder of the fiscal year, almost certainly leading to lower revenue and earnings for the second half relative to the previous year,' said Chris Liddell, the company’s chief financial officer."  The entire article is linked here.

The point is that when a dominant competitor like Microsoft reports a profit of over $4 billion dollars for the quarter, and still announces huge job cuts (read that painful "expense reductions"), there is truly great uncertainty to say the least, about business prospects for the year ahead.  It's not a stretch to say that even industry leaders are expecting already dim revenue growth prospects to worsen before sentiment and expectations improve.  Microsoft's action this morning indicates that perhaps no company is immune from the negative effects of the current economic crisis.

One prescription Lexicon is offering to our clients:  economize by working with us to maintain your proven mobile devices from Intermec, Symbol, and Hand Held Products.  There are hundreds of thousands of durable, rugged batch and rf enterprise mobility devices in use that are 3+ years old, but our message to user organizations who own these devices is:  The Intermec T2425, Intermec T2455, and other Trakker Antares terminals; the Symbol SPT 1800, Symbol PDT 6846; the HHP Dolphin 9500 and many, many more similiar mobile devices have many more YEARS of reliable service yet to give.

If you've got so-called "legacy" devices (we prefer "proven" as a more accurate descriptor) that you want to continue to gain an ROI from in this economy, we salute your sound judgement -- and we may be able to help you.