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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.142705.17350@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:27:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <C17LxL.BA7@rice.edu>
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- In article <C17LxL.BA7@rice.edu> amitp@owlnet.rice.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
- >|> I would like to remind everybody that is complaning that there might be
- >|> (and most likely will be) a charge for the upgrade to OS/2 2.1
- >|> that yesterday (1/19/93) IBM declared 4th quarted\r losses of
- >|> over $5,000,000,000.00.....yup thats % billion dollars for
- >
- >I read somewhere that this is the biggest loss any company has ever
- >had in a quarter... :(
-
- This is misleading. Personal systems (makers of PS/n's, and OS/2) has
- turned a significant profit, and is HIRING new employees. Let's not
- lump the mainframe division (and other groups) losses in with the
- rest, OK?
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