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Article #16058Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
From: Joe Landman
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:52
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:52
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well, I have it on good authority that IBM will be getting out of the mainframe business in the next few quarters (eg: diving off a sinking ship might just be the first signs of a plan for survival). No, I do not know any far up IBM insiders, I simply listened to what cuts IBM had announced over the last year. It is not hard to figure out what is and is not profitable for them. There was some mention of them closing the plants in Fishkill and Poughkeepsie NY (right near my old home town of Yorktown, which is where IBM research is) which make various chips... I hope the IBM will not be getting out of the workstation or PC areas. I have a PS Valuepoint 433 and I love it, and I hear the the RS 6000 is a nice machine to do heavy number crunching on... Joe
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