SYSTRAN: Annual Results 2006.* Sales of 9,342 K EU as compared with 10,113 K EU in 2005 * Operating Income Operating Income The profit realized from a business' own operations. Notes: This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit. of 1,234 K EU and Net Income of 1,085 K EU * Total work orders of 3,323 K EU PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- SYSTRAN SYSTRAN System Analysis Translator (Pink Sheets:SYTRF) (Paris:RAN) (ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. :FR0004109197), the leading provider of language translation technologies today announced its consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31, 2006. [TABLE OMITTED] Total revenue for the year 2006 amounted to 9,342 K EU, a decrease of 7.6% when compared with 2005. This decrease in sales compounded by higher labor costs and operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. resulted in a decrease in the Company's operating income. Increased labor and expenses were needed to finalize the development of the new version 6 product line and to supplement the sales and marketing staff. Consequently, operating income amounted +1,234 K EU as compared with +3.352 K EU in 2005. The amount of financial income was equal to the losses on the foreign exchange rate. The US Dollar negatively impacted the net financial income which amounted to 19 K EU versus 843 K EU in 2005. However, SYSTRAN's net income amounted to 1,085 K EU in 2006, versus 3,061 K EU in 2005. The Company's cash position amounted to 10,169 K EU on December 31, 2006, as compared with 10,909 K EU on December 31, 2005. [TABLE OMITTED] During 2006, software license sales amounted to 6,236 KEU KEU Cost of Ungeared Equity KEU Korean Employee Union KEU Kernel Execution Unit , a decrease of 19.9% as compared with 2005. The Professional Services activities increased by 33.4%, when compared to year-end 2005. The decrease in Software Publishing sales is attributable to Desktop Products, the result of the delayed release of the new version 6 product line. This decrease is apparent on every channel. The increase in Professional Services is due to new contracts received from the US Federal Government and existing corporate customers in the USA. Outlook On January 30th, 2007 SYSTRAN launched the new version 6 for its family of Desktop products. Version 6 provides major technological advances in SYSTRAN's software such as improvement in translation quality, a dictionary lookup and many new features to help customers rapidly create multilingual documents. Thanks to this new version, software license sales are expected to increase throughout all markets. Total work orders amounted to 3,323 KEU at December 31, 2006. Dispute with the European Commission On October 4th, 2003, the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission launched a call for tenders in order to modify the Unix version of EC-SYSTRAN as delivered by SYSTRAN to the European Commission in 2003. In January 2004, a Luxembourg based company was awarded the contract. This company had no prior activity or experience in the field of Machine Translation and hired all the former employees of SYSTRAN's subsidiary in Luxembourg who were laid off because of the lack of new orders from the European Commission. SYSTRAN wrote to the European Commission to express its doubts about the legality of this call for tenders, and underlined that the work performed on its software might infringe upon its intellectual property rights. In July 2005, SYSTRAN lodged a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission. On October 23, 2006, the European Ombudsman provided his decision and found no maladministration mal·ad·min·is·ter tr.v. mal·ad·min·is·tered, mal·ad·min·is·ter·ing, mal·ad·min·is·ters To administer or manage inefficiently or dishonestly. mal on the part of the Commission but did not make a statement on the violation of SYSTRAN's intellectual property rights. In January 2007, SYSTRAN introduced an application for indemnification against the European Commission before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, for damages due to the violation of its intellectual property rights. About SYSTRAN SYSTRAN is the market leading provider of language translation software products and solutions for the desktop, enterprise and Internet that facilitate communication in 52 language combinations and in 20 vertical domains. With over three decades of expertise and research and development, SYSTRAN's software is the choice of leading global corporations, portals including AltaVista[TM], Google[TM], Yahoo![R], and Orange, and governmental institutions throughout the world such as the US Intelligence Community and the European Commission. Use of SYSTRAN products and solutions enhances multilingual communication and increases user productivity and time-savings for B2E B2E Business to Employee B2E Business to Enterprise , B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business and B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. market segments as they deliver real-time language solutions for search, content management, online customer support, intra or inter company collaboration, and eCommerce. SYSTRAN is headquartered in Paris, France with a North American office located in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , USA. SYSTRAN (Code ISIN FR0004109197, Bloomberg: SYST SYST System SYST Shut Your Stinkin' Trap NM, Reuters: SYTN SYTN Shema Yisrael Torah Network .LN) is listed on EuroList Paris, Compartiment C, and is member of Euronext's Next Economy segment. For more information, visit www.systransoft.com. Revenue for the first quarter 2007 ending on March 31st, 2007 will be announced on May 11th, 2007. This Press Release is available for download at: http://www.systransoft.com/index/About-Systran/Investors/Financial -Releases (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) [TABLE OMITTED] |
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