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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM and $$$$  (WAS Re: Intel Microprocessors (History))
Message-ID: <388@devon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 08:28:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: devon.388
Posted: Wed Aug 19 08:28:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 05:22:00 EDT
References: <79@LBI.UUCP> <182@hobbes.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Distribution: world
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Allentown, PA
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Keywords: IBM
Summary: No IBM bashing here

In article <182@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
> +---- Robert Cain writes the following in article <79@LBI.UUCP> ----
> | Oh BIG BLUE if only you would have known the Frankinstein you created!
> 
> They have sold much more than 5 MILLION of these beasts - Figure a standard
> 35% markup from wholesale to retail, and you still get several billion dollars
> income!  Quita a profitable Frankenstein!  And that's what drives IBM,
> profits!  Not state of the art, not segments, not CPU speed, but $$$$.

I once worked for a man who, himself, had once worked for IBM.  He had
this to say about what drives IBM:  "You know how IBM says that 'Service
is their middle name'?  Bullsh*t, BUSINESS is their middle name."

I couldn't agree more.

- paul

-- 
Paul Sutcliffe, Jr.

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