Some senseless babbling from Bryan Schwartz to All
on 09-24-99  20:05 about IBM going broke?...

 BS> From an Forbes Mag. article at http://www.wired.com/news
 BS> entitled "IBM's Giant Gamble" the following examples of IBM 
 BS> continuing to decline in relationship to it's competition:
 BS> Unix Servers: IBM sales up 3% last year, but
 BS> Sun Microsystem's sales up 29%
 BS> PCs : IBM down 2.4%
 BS> Dell Computers up 53%
 BS> Hewlett-Packard up 20%
 BS> Software:  IBM up 6.3%
 BS> Microsoft up 23%
 BS> Things are so bad at IBM that Lou Grestner has decided to
 BS> sell off IBM's most valued technology to its compeditors.
 BS> Is this the old "sell the company assets and claim the
 BS> sale proceeds as revenue" trick that all companys on their
 BS> last legs use to keep the shareholders happy?
 BS> Is IBM desperate? Or is just Big Lou desperate?
 BS> It's Big Lou that had IBM give windows NT a big boost
 BS> by having a version of IBM's DB/2 written for it. A real
 BS> farsighted move that was. Nothing like cutting the legs
 BS> from under your own operating system, OS/2, and giving
 BS> support to a rival company's OS. Did Microsoft write a
 BS> version of Microsoft Office for OS/2 in return? But what a
 BS> wonderful way to raise company moral and get empolyees
 BS> motivated...just shaft your own products infavour of the
 BS> competition.
 BS> So the real question for us OS/2 users is not "will there be
 BS> a new OS/2 client? " but in a few years time, "will there be
 BS> an IBM?". 

This is quite specious.  Unless you attach dollar figures to those 
percentages, they mean nothing.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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