Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????

Article View: comp.os.os2.misc

Article #16095

#16095

From: Todd Walk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27

21 lines
1657 bytes

landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Joe Landman) writes:

>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...

From what I've heard, IBM cancelled the core logic development for their
next line of mainframes.  The mainframe division has also had recent
layoffs.  Workstation and PC divisions are doing better than ever.


					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Technical Details

Message-ID: <C1FqM9.Hr7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!walk

References: <1jpjabINNlsh@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan24.143953.11923@scott.skidmore.edu> <1993Jan25.205222.4890@cs.wayne.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!walk
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Subject: Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
References: <1jpjabINNlsh@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan24.143953.11923@scott.skidmore.edu> <1993Jan25.205222.4890@cs.wayne.edu>
Message-ID: <C1FqM9.Hr7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27:45 GMT
Lines: 22

Reply to Parent Message