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In <5go9jg$9si@usenet88.supernews.com>, brian@anv.net writes:
>In <5gnuil$1hb4$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, baxte17@ibm.net  (Kevin J Baxter) writes:
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>>As most of us know, the vast majority of this gross revenue is derived
>>from IBM's mainframe operations (S/390, MVS, MVS/ES, MVS,VSE, VS,
>>and whatever other letter combinations you can put together).
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>     Really?  Do you have a relevant URL that you wouldn't mind 
>posting?  I could swear I read that the AS/400 group was the single 
>most profitable division of IBM.
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Depends on how you count the "beans".  S/390 is still the largest revenue group - i.e. most sales.   But when it come to
profit is gets a little fussy - and difficult to get past IBM internal only.  The AS/400 group will maintain that they are the most
profitable for IBM - and on many scales they are.  But they will include drag along revenue from other division. i.e. disk and tape 
drives sold for AS/400 by the Storage division.  This is storage division profit, but would not exist if not for the AS/400.  
By the way, IBM know sells more disk and tape for the AS/400 then for the mainframe.  
        So how do you count your beans?


Mike Wanninger
AS/400 guru and recently ex-IBM
Team OS/2