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Dataram Reports Fiscal 2007 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Financial Results.


Board of Directors Declares Regular Quarterly $0.06 Per Share Dividend

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: DRAM) today reported its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended April 30, 2007. Revenues for the quarter were $8.8 million, which compares to $8.8 million for the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year. Revenues for fiscal 2007 totaled $38.4 million versus $41.8 million for the prior fiscal year. Prior fiscal year's revenues included $3.0 million from sales to one OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  customer with whom the Company no longer transacts business.

Robert V. Tarantino, Dataram's chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  commented, "Our strategy of expanding our customer base by focusing on creating demand at the source with value added resellers See VAR.

(company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software).
 and end-users is working and we are confident that we will achieve further success with this model in the upcoming year. However, in the fourth quarter, revenues came under pressure as our average selling prices The average sales price of goods or commodities. Especially used in the retail sector and technology distribution.  were lower by approximately 13 percent from third quarter levels primarily due to the well-publicized decline in the price of DRAM chips. In order to better align our costs with our revenues, we initiated a reduction in our cost structure in the fourth quarter. We reduced our workforce by approximately 14 percent, which resulted in a pretax pre·tax  
adj.
Existing before tax deductions: pretax income.

pretax adj [profit] → vor (Abzug der) Steuern 
 charge of $320,000 in the fourth quarter that consists primarily of a provision for severance payments. Of this amount, $55,000 has been charged to cost of sales and $265,000 has been charged to selling, general and administrative expense in the Company's fourth quarter consolidated statements of operations. The operational efficiencies achieved by this action are expected to generate approximately $900,000 in annual cost savings."

Gross margins for the fourth quarter and fiscal year averaged 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively, which is within what the Company considers its normal range. The Company considers gross margins of 25 percent, plus or minus 3 percent, normal.

Fourth quarter and twelve month expenses of the current fiscal year include $94,000 and $440,000, respectively, of non-cash stock option expense compared to zero in the prior year comparable periods. The Company was required to commence expensing stock options at the beginning of the current fiscal year.

The Company incurred a net loss of $308,000 or $0.04 per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, which includes the pretax charges of $320,000 for severances and $94,000 of stock option expense. This compares to net earnings of $83,000 or $0.01 per diluted di·lute  
tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes
1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.

2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
 share for the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year. For the current fiscal year, net earnings totaled $770,000 or $0.09 per diluted share versus $2.8 million or $0.31 per diluted share for the comparable prior year period. Net earnings for the current fiscal year included a payment of $2.3 million from a DRAM manufacturer related to a settlement agreement that the Company entered into during the second quarter. Prior year net earnings include a gain of $1.9 million from the sale of undeveloped land owned by the Company. The $2.3 million settlement payment is recorded as other income in the Company's financial statements for the year ended April 30, 2007. The $1.9 million gain on sale of the land was recorded as other income in the comparable prior year period.

The Company's backlog at the end of the fourth quarter was $579,000, which compares to $1,028,000 at the end of the third quarter and $964,000 at the end of the prior fiscal year.

Mr. Tarantino concluded, "Our Board of Directors is committed to increasing shareholder value. We believe we have made the changes necessary to be operationally profitable in the new fiscal year. We are further encouraged by the fact that our order rate to date is running ahead of our plan. Our financial condition is strong and we remain highly liquid. Today, the Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per common share. The dividend will be payable on June 27, 2007, to shareholders of record as of June 13, 2007."

ABOUT DATARAM CORPORATION

Dataram is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of high capacity, reliable and innovative memory solutions. With over 40 years of experience, Dataram provides customized memory solutions for OEMs and compatible memory for leading brands including HP, Dell, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982.  and Intel. For more information about Dataram, visit www.dataram.com

The information provided in this press release may include forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

relating to relate prepbezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc 
 future events, such as the development of new products, pricing and availability of raw materials or the future financial performance of the Company. Actual results may differ from such projections and are subject to certain risks including, without limitation, risks arising from: changes in the price of memory chips, changes in the demand for memory systems, increased competition in the memory systems industry, order cancellations, delays in developing and commercializing new products and other factors described in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be reviewed at http://www.sec.gov.
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