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Re: Hardware (was: System i Innovation Award -- Community Supportcategory)

On 5/3/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Sales are down 6 quarters in a row. 2 more quarters of down sales and IBM
might pull the plug on the system.

Steve, as you are making your statements please be aware of this tidbit fact
I picked up at COMMON from the mouth of Mark Shearer (and I paraphrase) "The
combination of support and sales of System i5 hardware accounts for 1/2 of
IBM's hardware monies". I don't believe the System i5 is going anywhere
soon and making statements saying IBM is going to pull the plug is simply
silly IMO.

you say silly, I say bullsh** ;) How does Shearer come up with that
number? Based on reports in ITJungle, the z,x and p are each doing $1B
sales per quarter and the i is less than $250M. That puts system i
hardware sales at less than 10% of the total. How does 10% become
50%??

-Steve

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