RE: iSeries 25% Growth 3rd Quarter

It looks suspiciously like I made the statement below, but all I did was
post a quote from the earnings statement on IBM's website, I think in
the truncating they managed to save the end of my message and the start
of another. I agree that both pieces of information are useful.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: iSeries 25% Growth 3rd Quarter

Chris,

ALONE each number isn't as useful as having both of them.



At 02:44 PM 10/18/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>And one could argue that units may not be a good representation.  It
would
>be a good number to know.  Generally speaking it's takes less units to
do
>the same amount of work year to year - I know that is the case in our
>environment.  Heck, I'm looking at an upgrade that triples my
processing
>power but costs less than my 3 year old machine.
>
>The thing I'm always most interested in is new customers - and don't
quote
>me on my 3,000 stated earlier......I'm trying to find where I think I
saw
>that....I could be wrong, it could be 3,000 units at new customers, or
who
>knows what......but I think the new life we need to have brought in is
net
>new customers.
>
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> >From IBM's statement of quarterly earnings on their website under
>investor relations:
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>"Hardware revenues for the Systems and Technology Group totaled $5.0
>billion for the quarter, up 7 percent. Revenue growth from S&TG eServer
>products was driven by iSeries midrange servers, which increased 25
>percent; pSeries UNIX servers, an increase of 15 percent; and xSeries
>servers, which increased 11 percent. Revenues from the zSeries
mainframe
>product decreased 4 percent compared with the year-ago period. Total
>delivery of zSeries computing power, which is measured in MIPS
(millions
>of instructions per second), increased 18 percent. In addition to
>eServers, revenues from Storage Systems and Microelectronics increased
>11 percent and 14 percent, respectively."
>
>So it is in dollars, not units.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: midrange-l-bounces+cpayne=thecrowngrp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+cpayne=thecrowngrp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Don
>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:25 PM
>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>Subject: Re: iSeries 25% Growth 3rd Quarter
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>
>Is that dollars or UNITS?  Yes, there is a difference.
>
>I'ld like to see some unit sales trends...the same kinda stats we see
>from
>the auto manufacturers
>that's published monthly in WSJ would be nice...it's a nice break down
>by
>model types...
>
>But 24% is impressive.
>
>Any of it to new people that have never been on a 400 before?
>
>Don in DC
>
>iSeries - we've had more GM's than Steinbrenner's Yankee's...
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>At 02:34 PM 10/18/2005 -0400, you wrote:
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> >The subject line says it all!
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