On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:23:54 -0500, Aled Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have to agree, zMan. >It's important for IBM (in their view) to be seen to be 'keeping up with >technology/trends'. And as 'cloud' seems to be a major 'marketing' word/ploy >right now, journalists etc are lapping it up. For many years now IBM has been praised by Wall St. for shunning low-margin and commodity businesses (printers, PCs, hard drives) , in favor of higer profit software and professional services. If not for the marketing buzzword value, the 'cloud' business would seem to be the ultimate in low-margin commodity based lines of business to me. Dana ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
