Paris-based French software component provider Ilog SA reported its best-ever quarter in terms of earnings yesterday, referring to the three months ending December 31, 1998. The bottom line still showed a loss, however, bringing its mid-term net loss (the company’s fiscal year ends June 30) to $2m. However, as Ilog pointed out, it had a net profit before exceptional charges of $1.3m for the quarter, which would have meant, had these charges not been made, an earning per share of $0.09, instead of as actually happened, a loss per share of $0.08. The charges in question relate to Ilog’s $1.8m acquisition of technologies from Oasis Software, Inc, as well as to the $500,000 it spent on its December flotation on the Nouveau Marche in Paris (CI No 3,545).
