Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

[Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM started to source printers from Lexmark again (Lexmark OEM's them to 
IBM).

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>> One can only hope that after selling off the Printing Division 
(Lexmark),
>> Storage Division (Hitachi) and PC Division (Lenovo) that they might 
sell
>> off the iSeries division.

Oh, one could only pray. Could you imagine what Rochester could do without 
IBM corporate hanging around it's neck with moronic management and 
marketing? In the article, they said the Lexmark management took the 
copies of the IBM corporate rules, laminated them and glued them to the 
factory floor. I just wish they would do that with IBM corporate 
management. 

Unfortunately, it is never going to happen because that means giving up 
the pSeries, also and ultimately the zSeries will be running on the 
PowerPC, also. Doubt that want to let all that go. 

One question though, I thought IBM took back Lexmark? There website 
doesn't say anything about it. 

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date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:53:30 -0400
from: Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

One can only hope that after selling off the Printing Division (Lexmark),
Storage Division (Hitachi) and PC Division (Lenovo) that they might sell
off the iSeries division.  THEN we'd probably see some serious hardball
promotion from the new owners, who may just revive the AS/400 name.
Then again, Microsoft or Oracle might just buy it to kill it off, and I
might win $50,000,000 in a lottery and retire tomorrow.  :-)

...Neil