Well said. Hate to upset anyone, but IBM nor the mainframe is going away anytime soon irregardless of the constant barrage of heated IBM criticism being sent to this list.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Bob Shannon <[email protected]>wrote: > >Revenue for the category plummeted 39 percent year-over-year in IBM's most > >recent quarter. > > Did that surprise you? Did you expect revenue to rise? > > IBM is a balanced company, deriving revenue from HW, SW and services across > multiple platforms. When one area is down, the other areas tend to take up > the slack. The last year has been difficult for all HW and SW vendors. IBM > may be handling the economic downturn better than most. > > Bob Shannon > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
