-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, AuS1ysHOP9rFxmChXVxCsY4JY1Z/Sodj77asnGpmWf3m+xBxAZA4yAQEhQP0taXp ryRq7+iQomGIqdHWkL0pOA== 0000898430-99-000918.txt : 19990316 0000898430-99-000918.hdr.sgml : 19990316 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000898430-99-000918 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-Q PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19990131 FILED AS OF DATE: 19990315 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ANDATACO INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000351810 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES [3572] IRS NUMBER: 042511897 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-Q SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-10370 FILM NUMBER: 99564999 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 124 ACTON ST CITY: MAYNARD STATE: MA ZIP: 01754 BUSINESS PHONE: 5084611000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10140 MESA RIM ROAD STREET 2: 124 ACTON STREET CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92121 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: IPL SYSTEMS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 10-Q 1 FORM 10-Q DATED 01/31/1999 ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q [X] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED JANUARY 31, 1999, OR [ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM ____TO ____. COMMISSION FILE NUMBER: 0-10370 ANDATACO, INC. -------------- (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) MASSACHUSETTS 04-2511897 ------------- ---------- (State or jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 10140 MESA RIM RD., SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92121 (Address of principal executive offices and Zip Code) (619) 453-9191 (Registrant's Telephone Number, including area code) Indicate by a check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter periods that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No --- --- As of February 26, 1999, there were 23,819,399 shares of the Registrant's common stock, $0.01 par value, issued and outstanding. ================================================================================ ANDATACO, INC. FORM 10-Q INDEX - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAGE NO. PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION Item 1. Consolidated Financial Statements Consolidated Balance Sheet at January 31, 1999 (unaudited) and October 31, 1998 .................................... 3 Consolidated Statement of Operations (unaudited) for the three-month period ended January 31, 1999 and 1998....... 4 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the three-month period ended January 31, 1999 and 1998....... 5 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited).... 6 Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations................................ 8 PART II. OTHER INFORMATION Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K........................... 13 Signatures PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION ITEM 1: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANDATACO, INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 31, OCTOBER 31, 1999 1998 ------------ ----------- (unaudited) Assets Current assets: Cash ....................................... $ 23,000 $ 23,000 Accounts receivable, net ................... 7,625,000 10,628,000 Inventories ................................ 5,441,000 4,923,000 Other current assets ....................... 809,000 634,000 ----------- ----------- Total current assets ...................... 13,898,000 16,208,000 Goodwill, net ............................... 5,575,000 5,993,000 Equipment and improvements, net ............. 3,248,000 3,415,000 Other assets ................................ 51,000 66,000 ----------- ----------- $22,772,000 $25,682,000 =========== =========== LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Accounts payable ........................... $ 6,863,000 $ 7,853,000 Accrued expenses ........................... 2,151,000 2,610,000 Deferred revenue ........................... 1,957,000 2,259,000 ----------- ----------- Total current liabilities ................. 10,971,000 12,722,000 ----------- ----------- Long-term liabilities: Bank line of credit ........................ 5,000,000 5,462,000 Shareholder loan ........................... 5,196,000 5,196,000 ----------- ----------- Total long-term liabilities ............... 10,196,000 10,658,000 ----------- ----------- Shareholders' equity: Common stock ............................... 238,000 238,000 Additional paid in capital ................. 10,107,000 10,107,000 Accumulated deficit ........................ (8,740,000) (8,043,000) ----------- ----------- Total shareholders' equity ................ 1,605,000 2,302,000 ----------- ----------- $22,772,000 $25,682,000 =========== =========== See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements. 3 ANDATACO, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited) - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Three Months Ended January 31, 1999 1998 Sales ....................................................... $16,378,000 $21,760,000 Cost of sales ............................................... 11,872,000 14,975,000 ----------- ---------- Gross profit .............................................. 4,506,000 6,785,000 ----------- ---------- Operating expenses: Selling, general and administrative ........................ 4,553,000 6,415,000 Rent expense to shareholder ................................ 83,000 83,000 Research and development ................................... 322,000 441,000 ----------- ---------- Total operating expenses .................................. 4,958,000 6,939,000 ----------- ---------- Loss from operations ........................................ (452,000) (154,000) Interest expense ............................................ 128,000 149,000 Interest expense to shareholder ............................. 117,000 117,000 ----------- ---------- Net loss .................................................... $ (697,000) $ (420,000) =========== ========== Net loss per share (basic and diluted) ...................... $ (0.03) $ (0.02) =========== ========== Shares used in computing net loss per share (basic and diluted) .................................................. 23,819,399 23,819,399 =========== ==========
See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements. 4 ANDATACO, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited) - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Three Months Ended January 31, ------------------- 1999 1998 ------------ ------------ Cash flows from operating activities: Net loss ...................................................... $ (697,000) $ (420,000) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization ............................... 453,000 370,000 Amortization of goodwill .................................... 418,000 418,000 Changes in assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable .......................................... 3,003,000 380,000 Inventories .................................................. (518,000) 555,000 Other assets ................................................. (160,000) 13,000 Accounts payable ............................................. (990,000) (517,000) Accrued expenses ............................................. (459,000) 331,000 Deferred revenue ............................................. (302,000) 539,000 ---------- ----------- Net cash provided by operating activities ................... 748,000 1,669,000 ---------- ----------- Cash flows from investing activities: Payments for purchases of property and equipment .............. (286,000) (159,000) ---------- ----------- Net cash used in investing activities ....................... (286,000) (159,000) ---------- ----------- Cash flows from financing activities: Payments under bank line of credit agreement, net ............. (462,000) (1,500,000) Payments on notes payable ..................................... - (28,000) ---------- ----------- Net cash used in financing activities ....................... (462,000) (1,528,000) ---------- ----------- Net decrease in cash ........................................... - (18,000) Cash at beginning of period .................................... 23,000 41,000 ---------- ----------- Cash at end of period .......................................... $ 23,000 $ 23,000 ========== ===========
See notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements. 5 ANDATACO, INC. Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE 1 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements of Andataco, Inc. ("ANDA", or the "Company") have been prepared by the Company without audit pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for Form 10-Q. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 1998. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring items, necessary for a fair presentation of the Company's financial position as of January 31, 1999 and its results of operations for the three-month periods ended January 31, 1999 and 1998. The interim financial information contained herein is not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any other interim period or the full fiscal year ending October 31, 1999. NOTE 2 - BUSINESS COMBINATION On June 3, 1997 (the "Closing Date"), ANDA (formally IPL Systems, Inc.) completed a business combination with ANDATACO of California, whereby ANDATACO of California was merged with a wholly-owned subsidiary of ANDA (the "Merger"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the shareholders of ANDATACO of California were issued a total of 18,078,381 shares of ANDA Class A Common Stock in exchange for all outstanding shares of capital stock of ANDATACO of California. Although as a legal matter the Merger resulted in ANDATACO of California becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of ANDA, for financial reporting purposes the Merger was treated as a recapitalization of ANDATACO of California and an acquisition of ANDA by ANDATACO of California (reverse acquisition). The financial reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission require that the financial statements reported by ANDA subsequent to the Merger be those of ANDATACO of California, which include the results of operations of ANDA from the Closing Date. The acquisition of ANDA by ANDATACO of California was accounted for using the purchase method. Accordingly, the purchase price was allocated to the estimated fair market value of identifiable tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed. Based upon an independent valuation, the Company allocated $2,400,000 to acquired in-process research and development for which there is no future alternative use and $400,000 to existing proprietary technology for which technological feasibility had been established. As required by generally accepted accounting principles, the amount allocated to in-process research and development was recorded as a one-time charge to operations and the amount allocated to existing technology was amortized over its estimated useful life. The excess of the purchase price over the identifiable net assets acquired of $8,362,000 was recorded as goodwill and is being amortized on a straight-line basis over its estimated useful life of five years. 6 ANDATACO, INC. Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE 3 - NET LOSS PER SHARE Basic earnings per share is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period increased by the weighted average number of common stock equivalents outstanding during the period, using the treasury stock method. Shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options and warrants, totaling 2,528,978 and 2,439,284 as of January 31, 1999 and 1998, respectively, have been excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share, as their effect would be anti-dilutive. NOTE 4 - INVENTORIES
JANUARY 31, OCTOBER 31, 1999 1998 ---------- ---------- (unaudited) Inventories are comprised of the following: Purchased components .............................. $4,929,000 $3,900,000 Work in progress .................................. 9,000 280,000 Finished goods .................................... 503,000 743,000 ---------- ---------- $5,441,000 $4,923,000 ========== ==========
7 ITEM 2: MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere within this quarterly report. Fluctuations in annual and quarterly results may occur as a result of factors affecting demand for the Company's products such as the timing of the Company's and competitors' new product introductions and upgrades. Due to such fluctuations, historical results and percentage relationships are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for any future period. The discussion contained in this report contains forward-looking statements based on the current expectations of the Company's management. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include but are not limited to, fluctuations in the Company's operating results, continued new product introductions by the Company, market acceptance of the Company's new product introductions, new product introductions by competitors, technological changes in the computer storage industry and other factors referred to herein, including but not limited to, the factors discussed below and in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward- looking statements which may be made to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. OVERVIEW ANDATACO designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports high performance, high availability information storage solutions for the open systems markets in the Windows NT and UNIX environments including Sun Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Silicon Graphics, Inc., and NT- based computing systems. The Company's fully integrated hierarchy of data storage solutions includes fault-tolerant Redundant Array of Independent Disks ("RAID") and RAID-ready disk storage, tape backup and restore products and data storage management software. The Company also provides technical support and professional services for its products. The Company distributes internally developed products and products from other manufactures through a network of sales offices worldwide and through distributors in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and Australia. The customers for the Company's products represent a variety of industries and government agencies operating in distributed client/server as well as centralized computing environments. These customers range in size from FORTUNE 1000 companies to small businesses, and from national to local governments. GigaRAID High Availability Series ANDATACO's award winning Enterprise Storage Packaging ("ESP"), is the framework of the Company's GigaRAID Series. ESP combines, for the first time, microprocessors and enclosures to provide the user industry-leading, modular and building block packaging combined with proactive, storage management functionality. All critical components of the enclosure are monitored and a "Call Home" feature alerts the user should any critical component go out of specification. GigaRAID/AA, the newest member of the GigaRAID Series, is a family of RAID and RAID-ready disk and tape storage systems that are combined with ANDATACO's ESP to create more complete storage solutions. The GigaRAID/HA provides high performance and availability for database/On-Line Transactional Processing applications characterized by small block/random data processing. Other GigaRAID Series products, including the GigaRAID/SX, offer high performance and availability for certain data warehouse, seismic processing and video applications characterized by large block, sequential processing. Historically, the reseller business or the sale of third party non-GigaRAID products accounted for a substantial portion of the Company's revenues, representing 37.2% of revenues in fiscal 1996 and declining 8 to 34.6% and 33.4% in fiscal 1997 and 1998, respectively. Although the Company plans to continue to sell third party products, management's strategy is to focus increased resources on the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of internally developed and GigaRAID products. For the three months ended January 31, 1998 and 1999, revenue from sales of internally developed and GigaRAID products represented 42.2% and 59.5% of total revenue, respectively. SUBSEQUENT EVENT On March 3, 1999, nStor Technologies, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the shares of the Company's common stock held by the Company's principal shareholder. RESULTS OF OPERATIONS The following table sets forth items in the Company's statement of operations as a percentage of net sales for the periods presented. The data has been derived from the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
THREE MONTHS ENDED January 31, ----------------- 1999 1998 ---- ---- Sales.................................... 100.0% 100.0% Cost of sales............................ 72.5 68.8 ----- ----- Gross profit............................. 27.5 31.2 Operating expenses: Selling, general and administrative ... 27.8 29.5 Rent expense to shareholder ........... 0.5 0.4 Research and development .............. 2.0 2.0 ----- ----- Total operating expenses ............... 30.3 31.9 ----- ----- Loss from operations.................... (2.8) (0.7) Interest expense........................ 1.5 1.2 ----- ----- Net loss................................. (4.3)% (1.9)% ===== =====
First Quarter of Fiscal 1999 Compared to First Quarter of Fiscal 1998 Sales. Sales for the three months ended January 31, 1999 were $16,378,000, a decrease of 24.7% from sales of $21,760,000 for the same period in the prior year. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decrease in sales of older non-GigaRAID mass storage products including RAID Lite, RAPID-Tape, JBOD Disk and JBOT Tape. Older non-GigaRAID mass storage product sales were $2,077,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1999 compared to $5,157,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1998. In addition third-party product sales decreased by $3,114,000, from $2,774,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1999 compared to $5,888,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1998. Although the Company experienced an increase in sales of current internally designed and distributed GigaRAID products of $562,000 over the same period in 1998, the increase was more than offset by the decrease in the sales of non-GigaRAID mass storage and third-party products. The decrease in non-GigaRAID mass storage and third-party product sales is consistent with the Company's strategy to focus increased resources on internally designed products, including the GigaRAID product family, capable of producing higher margins. This is also consistent with the Company's transition towards "owned solutions" strategic technologies designed in-house to create technical, time-to-market and gross margin advantages. By combining engineered technology with selected products manufactured by its distribution and development partners, the Company believes it provides a strong, sophisticated product line targeted to fast-growing segments of the open systems storage market. Gross Profit. Gross profit in the first quarter of fiscal year 1999 was $4,506,000, representing approximately 27.5% of revenues, compared to $6,785,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1998, which represented approximately 31.2% of revenues. The decrease in gross profit as a percentage of sales was due primarily to lower margins earned on the Company's current GigaRAID product family during the first quarter of fiscal 1999 compared to the first quarter of 1998. The Company's current GigaRAID product 9 family sales accounted for 59.5% of revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 1999 as compared to 42.2% of revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 1998. Selling, General and Administrative Expense. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of the salaries, commissions and benefits of sales, marketing and customer support personnel and administrative and corporate services personnel, as well as consulting, advertising, promotion, and certain merger related expenses (i.e. goodwill amortization). Selling, general and administrative expenses were $4,553,000 and $6,415,000 for the quarters ended January 31, 1999 and 1998, respectively. The decrease in the current period's selling, general and administrative expenses over such expenses incurred in the comparable period of the prior fiscal year is due to decreased compensation-related sales costs resulting from decreased staff and lower sales volume. Research and Development Expense. Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries, employee benefits, overhead and outside contractors. Such expenses were $322,000 and $441,000 for the quarters ended January 31, 1999 and 1998, respectively. The level of research and development expenses is consistent with the Company's strategy to continue to focus resources on design and development of in-house products and differentiating technologies for which it believes there is a need in the market. However, there can be no assurance that product development programs invested in by the Company will be successful or that products resulting from such programs will achieve market acceptance. Interest Expense. The decrease in interest expense of $21,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 1999 from $149,000 in the comparable period in fiscal 1998 is primarily due to the reduction in the outstanding portion of the Company's bank line of credit. LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES The Company's cash remained at $23,000 as of January 31,1999 and as of October 31, 1998. Net working capital decreased $559,000 to $2,927,000 as of January 31, 1999 from that of October 31, 1998. During the first quarter of fiscal 1999, the Company generated $748,000 from operating activities, which was primarily used for investment in property and equipment of $286,000 and for payments to reduce the bank line of credit of $462,000. The Company currently maintains a credit facility that permits borrowings of the lesser of $10,000,000 or a percentage of eligible accounts receivable and inventory ($6,384,000 available at January 31, 1999). As of January 31, 1999, the Company had $5,000,000 outstanding under this credit line. The credit facility expires on April 30, 2001; consequently borrowings under this line have been classified as long-term. The Company believes that its projected income and its bank line of credit will be sufficient to meet the Company's capital and operating requirements for the next twelve months. If sales are less than projected, or if the Company is unable to generate adequate cash flows from its sales, the Company may need to seek additional sources of capital and/or decrease its planned capital and operating expenditures. A shareholder loan to the Company's president and principal shareholder is unsecured, due in June 2004, with interest payable monthly at 9 percent per annum. This loan is subordinate to the bank line of credit. INCOME TAXES The Company records a provision (benefit) for income taxes using the liability method. Current income tax expense or benefit represents the amount of income taxes expected to be payable or refundable for the current year. A deferred income tax liability or asset is established for the expected future consequences resulting from the differences between the financial reporting and income tax bases of assets and liabilities and from net operating loss and credit carryforwards. Deferred income tax expense or benefit represents the net change during the year in the deferred income tax liability or asset. A valuation allowance is established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts expected to be more likely than not realized. 10 YEAR 2000 Many current computer systems and software products were not designed to handle any dates beyond the year 1999. As a result, computer systems and/or software used by many companies may need to be modified prior to the Year 2000 in order to remain functional. Significant uncertainty exists in the hardware and software industry concerning the potential effects associated with such compliance. In mid-1997, the Company formed an internal task force to evaluate those areas of the Company that may be affected by the Year 2000 problem and devised a plan for the Company to become Year 2000 compliant in a timely manner (the "Plan"). The Plan focuses on three major areas: the Company's mission critical business transaction systems; the products the Company sells; and the issues associated with its business partners, including suppliers, customers and bankers. To date, the Company has executed approximately 95% of its Plan and anticipates completing the remaining portions of the Plan by the end of the second calendar quarter of 1999, while the evaluation and testing of certain ancillary PC office and specialized PC applications will continue through 1999. Costs incurred directly related to the Year 2000 problem are expensed by the Company during the period in which they are incurred. The Company has incurred to date no incremental material costs associated with its efforts to become Year 2000 compliant, as a majority of the costs have occurred as a result of normal upgrade procedures. Costs incurred relating to the Year 2000 issue include the time spent by employees reviewing and addressing Year 2000 risks and amounted to $20,000 in fiscal 1998. Based on current information, the Company does not expect future costs to address Year 2000 risks to be material. However, there can be no assurances that there will not be interruptions or other limitations of financial or operating systems functionally or that the Company will not incur significant costs to avoid such interruptions or limitations. The Company's expectations about future costs associated with the Year 2000 problem are subject to uncertainties that could cause actual results to have a greater financial impact than currently anticipated. Factors that could influence the amount and timing of future costs include but are not limited to the success of the Company's suppliers in completing their respective plan of action for Year 2000 compliance. Mission Critical Business Transaction Systems The Company has completed a review of its critical business transaction systems, and its Year 2000 compliance related to business transaction systems is as follows: All of the Company's systems for processing business transactions are Year 2000 compliant and the Company expects that these systems will correctly process transactions prior to and following 12:00 am January 1, 2000. This compliance extends to the underlying hardware, operating systems, and other software on which the Company's business systems operate. This compliance includes the following transactions and related printed documents: accepting orders from customers, fulfilling customer orders, 11 invoicing customers, crediting customer accounts, applying customer payments, refunding customers, placing orders with vendors, receiving vendor shipments, processing vendor invoices and paying vendors. The Company is in the process of evaluating certain ancillary PC office applications (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail etc.) and specialized PC applications including art, drawing and other creative department applications, hardware design and other engineering department applications, software development systems, bank account management, fixed asset management, and stock option database management. This effort will continue through 1999. Products the Company Sells The Company has also completed a review of all significant products the Company sells for Year 2000 compliance. All significant products that the Company currently sells are Year 2000 compliant and the Company believes these products will not produce date errors in changing from the year 1999 to 2000. Any products the Company intends to sell in the future will be reviewed for Year 2000 compliance. The functionality of all of these products, however, are dependent on the software compliance of the underlying operating systems. The Company's Business Partners The Company's suppliers (particularly sole-source and long lead-time suppliers), key customers and other key business partners (e.g. bankers) may be adversely affected by their respective failure to address the Year 2000 problem. Should any of the Company's suppliers encounter Year 2000 problems that cause them to delay manufacturing or shipments of key components to the Company, the Company may be forced to delay or cancel shipments of its products, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations. Any inability of the Company's key customers to become Year 2000 compliant which would cause them to delay or cancel substantial purchase orders or delivery of the Company's products would also have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations. Additionally, any inability of the Company's other key business partners, including the Company's bank, to become Year 2000 compliant could cause them to become unable to provide critical business services, such as to provide funding on the Company's line of credit, and could therefore also have a material adverse effect on the Company. The Company does not rely on any one significant customer (i.e. representing greater than 10% of total revenue). However, it is unknown how customer spending patterns may be impacted by Year 2000 programs. As customers focus on preparing their businesses for the Year 2000 in the near term, capital budgets may be spent on remediation efforts, potentially delaying the purchase and implementation of new systems, thereby creating less demand for the Company's products and services. This could adversely affect the Company's business. Conversely, demand for the Company's products could accelerate as customers focus on the need to protect their stored data by enhancing their capabilities. The Company has contacted all identified key vendors and obtained either a statement of Year 2000 compliance or a status report on the progress achieved to date on execution of their respective Year 2000 Plan. Based on this review, the Company is satisfied that all identified key vendors have satisfactorily addressed their Year 2000 issues with a plan of action as applicable and are, or will be, Year 2000 compliant by the end of the third calendar quarter of 1999. 12 PART II - OTHER INFORMATION ITEM 6: EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K. --------------------------------- (a) Exhibits 27.1 Financial Data Schedule (b) Reports on Form 8-K None SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. ANDATACO, INC. Date: March 15, 1999 By: /s/ Harris Ravine ----------------- Harris Ravine Chief Executive Officer (on behalf of registrant and as its principal executive officer) Date: March 15, 1999 By: /s/ Diane Wong -------------- Diane Wong Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller (on behalf of registrant and as its principal financial officer) 13 EX-27.1 2 FINANCIAL DATA SCHEDULE
5 3-MOS OCT-31-1999 NOV-01-1999 JAN-31-1999 23,000 0 7,625,000 0 5,441,000 13,898,000 3,248,000 0 22,772,000 10,971,000 0 0 0 238,000 1,367,000 22,772,000 16,378,000 16,378,000 11,872,000 4,958,000 0 0 245,000 (697,000) 0 (697,000) 0 0 0 (697,000) (0.03) (0.03)
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