Re: IBM's 3Q results

Glenn,

what we're seeing is a huge hunker down and wait until the y2k storm
clears...with alot of pentup projects waiting until after 1/2/00 or
2/29/00 depending on the company

Also, as far as the 400 sales being down...well, if IBM would start
telling folks that the 400 exists, cleanup their business partner antics,
get some decent marketing going then perhaps they'd have a better
credibility base in the product established...

JMHO....

Don in DC

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Glenn Ericson wrote:

> At 10:33 AM 10/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
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> >
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> >IBM didn't do so well.....here is a blurb from PC Week...
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> >
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> >Hardware sales fell 1 percent year-over-year to $8.8
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> >billion, as AS/400 revenue dropped "significantly."
> 
> >System 390 sales also declined, with the company
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> >blaming price reductions and Y2K effects. RS/6000
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> >revenue slid slightly, while Netfinity servers saw
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> >especially strong growth.
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> >Y2K and the wonderful Magic Box in action?  Let's hope the post Stephenson 
>era
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> >shows some promise.....
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> >
> 
> >Mike
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> IBM's   report for  dismissal earning for the next TWO Quarters has driven 
>the NY Stock market down severely as well as the price of IBM stock.
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> 
> IBM announced claim is Y2K  Freeze and  prior  equipment purchases  to 
>support Y2K will be the cause in martkets other than PC.
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> 
> Question is will  or how might this affect the MIS staffs?
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>        and job  market for  "00"
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> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Glenn
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