Lenovo. LENOVO. Spelling it right sure helps with search a couple of years
from now.

I think IBM's core business is (1) services and (2) software.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Aled Hughes
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Levono

I've spent several hours reading news reports from far and wide about this
much anticipated development. 
What I would like to know is, what does this now mean to IBM's core
business. More importantly, what is IBM's core business? Do I detect that
System z is becoming more important? Mrs Rometty has said some 'promising'
words about 'cloud' business (referring to new data centers), which, to me,
was about as clear as a... cloud. 
I also hear wise words about IBM the 'services' company. Personally, and I
think so would IBM-MAINers (is that a word?), I would like to see some real
positive emphasis on System z in the next few weeks to coincide with the
50th Anniversary of the S/360. So far, the silence 

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