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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27:45 GMT
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- landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Joe Landman) writes:
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- >well, I have it on good authority that IBM will be getting out of the mainframe
- >business in the next few quarters (eg: diving off a sinking ship might just be
- >the first signs of a plan for survival). No, I do not know any far up
- >IBM insiders, I simply listened to what cuts IBM had announced over the last year.
- > It is not hard to figure out what is and is not profitable for them.
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- > There was some mention of them closing the plants in Fishkill and Poughkeepsie NY
- >(right near my old home town of Yorktown, which is where IBM research is) which
- >make various chips... I hope the IBM will not be getting out of the workstation or
- > PC areas. I have a PS Valuepoint 433 and I love it, and I hear the the RS
- >6000 is a nice machine to do heavy number crunching on...
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- From what I've heard, IBM cancelled the core logic development for their
- next line of mainframes. The mainframe division has also had recent
- layoffs. Workstation and PC divisions are doing better than ever.
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- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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