> Did anybody pickup the article that IBM was shipping another 600 > jobs to outside the US ?
IBM is a _global_ company. Before the EU came into existence, IBM distributed its manufacturing around Europe. The /168 in the, the /158 in France, DASD in Germany, etc. This allowed it to claim that it was a "local company" in each country, and it even won the "Queen's Award for Exports" in the UK despite importing more than it exported. When the EU got going - and the Iron Curtain came down - this became pointless. Disk manufacture was relocated to Yugoslavia, etc. I don't know what IBM actually manufactures in the EU thses days. Not very much compared with the old days, certainly. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
