I think that IBM did a brilliant job of keeping the mainframe alive when industry, academia etc pronounced the mainframe dead in 1980. VSE died and came back, VM died and came back, linux runs on the mainframe and soon the wonderful Windows will be able to run on the mainframe! -------------- Original message from Mohammad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------
> May be they just know how to do it but I'm sure there are a lot of conspiracy > theories about it as well. I guess a google search for such theories will be > more productive than a query here at IBM-MAIN. > > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:34:13 -0500, Anton Britz > wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Just to get all these "Wandering minds" on to something more productive : > > > >How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so "rosy" ? > > > >All the other vendors have annouced "buy backs" ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM > >still > >announced fantastic results. > > > >Something smells fishy some where.. > > > >Anton > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
