Re: IBM selling PC division

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i just bought a Thinkpad (the day before this was announced..)
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: IBM selling PC division


> I don't believe IBM has actually built PC's for a few
> years now. I recall a deal a few years back when they
> farmed out all the manufacturing to another pc company.
>
> They will not be the last big company to bail out of that
> losing business.
>
> There isn't many left in the market place and I can't
> believe any of them are making any money on a product
> that keeps falling in price.
>
>
>
> Urbanek, Marty wrote:
> > I just heard this on CNBC. They said it's not a done deal yet.
> >
> > If IBM is selling the PC part of its business, might they do that to
iSeries?
> >
> > I think they said the PC part was a $10B piece of the business. How does
iSeries compare with that?
>
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