gtchen@faline.UUCP (09/01/87)
In article <> dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming) writes: >Indeed, I recall reading an IBM report that said for every penny ($0.01) >they spend on hardware R & D they had to spend 100M ($100,000,000.00) in >software R & D. > >danielle If we assume that IBM has a net asset on the order of 100 billion, then they could have spent, at most, about 10 dollars on hardware research and development. That's about the price of a 10-pack of disks when bought in large quantities. But wait, they can't bye the disks in large quantities can they? Perhaps diskettes are considered part of software. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |What's a .signature? Life is an equation whose only solutions are irrational | |gtchen@thumper.bellcore.com ! gtchen@romeo.caltech.edu ! gtchen@where.am.i?. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+