Re: IBM's 3Q results

Chuck,

Talking about the Yahoo finance site (finance.yahoo.com)

a quick off topic warning:  Read those messages with a BIG "CAVEAT EMPTOR"
flashing on the top of your screen.  Kinda like dealing with some folks
that come up to you say  "HI, I'm Joe.  I'm a IBM Business Partner...."
:)  Some of those messages are credible and on the level, some are
vapor...

Don in DC



On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Don,
> 
> What are you referring to at the Yahoo Sap site ?
> 
> The message board has some interesting threads... :-)
> 
> TIA
> 
> Chuck
> 
> Don wrote:
> 
> > Joe,
> >
> > check the news releases on SAP (finance.yahoo.com), but I kinda thought
> > they had a bad last wtr....
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Joe Teff wrote:
> >
> > >  >we're seeing the same in parts of the US.  It's becoming a buyers market
> > >  >here at least until 12/31...I'm hearing that in some parts of the 
>colonies
> > >  >RPG'ers are a "dime a dozen"....
> > >  >
> > >  >Lots of stuff on hold until after 1/1 or 2/29...whichever set of
> > >  >paranoidisms they subscribe to...
> > >  >
> > >  > Don in DC
> > >
> > > It doesn't appear that this slow down is affecting markets like SAP or
> > > client/server. Is this phenomenon limited to the "mainframe" world or
> > > to RPG in particular? Is AS/400 COBOL shops slow?
> > >
> > > Joe Teff
> > >
> > >
> > >
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