It's a down economy and they want something to show stock holders (aka, justify their own bonuses). The useless salesmen crowed and IBM's history repeated itself. They've already raped and outsourced their technical staff, so one of the few routes left is to (yet again) screw the customers, eliminating the only resource that doesn't blow.
Scott On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Bob Woodside <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2010, Scott T. Harder wrote: > > Incredibly BAD idea. It cannot be understated what a BAD idea this > > is. > > s/understated/overstated/ > > There. Fixed that for you. > > I'm with Ted, in that I'll withhold any further comment until we > see an authoritative word from someone within IBM; but if true it bodes > no good for anyone. > > > Cheers, > Bob > > -- > Bob Woodside > Woodsway Consulting, Inc. > http://www.woodsway.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
