paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) (08/19/87)
In article <182@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes: > +---- Robert Cain writes the following in article <79@LBI.UUCP> ---- > | Oh BIG BLUE if only you would have known the Frankinstein you created! > > They have sold much more than 5 MILLION of these beasts - Figure a standard > 35% markup from wholesale to retail, and you still get several billion dollars > income! Quita a profitable Frankenstein! And that's what drives IBM, > profits! Not state of the art, not segments, not CPU speed, but $$$$. I once worked for a man who, himself, had once worked for IBM. He had this to say about what drives IBM: "You know how IBM says that 'Service is their middle name'? Bullsh*t, BUSINESS is their middle name." I couldn't agree more. - paul -- Paul Sutcliffe, Jr. UUCP (smart): paul@devon.UUCP UUCP (dumb): ...{seismo,ihnp4,cbosgd}!bpa!vu-vlsi!devon!paul