"Bruce A. McKnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm just guessing but 85% gross margin seems way too high. >At 85%, the customers would be throwing a royal fit and the >FTC would be sharpening their fangs to take another huge >bite out of IBM. 15% is probably more likely. Besides, the >real profit comes from software. IBM could give the hardware >away and still make a huge profit on software licensing.
I think you misread the post -- ToP said "software" and "85%". BTW, that would probably be "DoJ" not "FTC"... ...phsiii (Picking nits early on a Saturday morning) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
