The passing of an era -- the sale of the cash register business. That is where (part of) it all began.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM financial results, 4Q12 This morning's New York Times reports very satisfactory 4th quarter 2012 financial results for IBM: <begin extract> The company's hardware revenue slipped 1 percent, to $5.8 billion. The division's sales were hurt by the loss of the cash register business. But mainframe sales surged 56 percent thanks to a new line of mainframe computers, the zEnterprise EC12, which began shipping in September. </end extract> This is good news even though the surge was from a low level. The "loss of the cash register business" was via its sale to Toshiba. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
