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From: dbercel@toto.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: R & D
Message-ID: <16483@toto.uucp>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 11:20:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: toto.16483
Posted: Tue Sep  1 11:20:37 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 01:29:33 EDT
Reply-To: dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming)
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Phil Ngai write
>
>In article <16481@toto.uucp> you write:
>>Indeed, I recall reading an IBM report that said for every penny ($0.01)
>>they spend on hardware R & D they had to spend 100M ($100,000,000.00) in
>>software R & D.
>
>It's really hard not to flame you on this one but I'll try. IBM is
>about a 50 billion dollar company. Suppose they spend 20% of their
>gross income on software R&D, or 10 billion dollars. That would mean
>they spend about $1 on hardware R&D. Need I say more? 
>
>Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com

Presumedly, the original statement meant that to achieve an
EQUIVALENT R & D BENEFIT the ratio would have to be as stated.

danielle

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