RE: 5 straight quarters of negative sales growth

Let's spin it this way:  5 straight quarters of positive sales decline!

Interesting story, nonetheless.  Thanks for the link. 


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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richter,Steve
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:25 PM
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Subject: 5 straight quarters of negative sales growth

more bad news on the system i sales front. For the 5th quarter in a row,
sales dropped.

4q05 -18
1q06 -22
2q06 -7
3q06 -22
4q06 -10
http://www.ibm.com/investor/4q06/4q06earnings.phtml

yet Herring and Jarman, the two IBM execs I think are most responsible
for the over pricing and under powering of the system i, retain their
jobs.

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh010807-story01.html

"...When I spoke to Jim Herring, director of System i product management
and business operations (he does the technology side), and Ian Jarman,
product manager of the System i product line (he does the marketing
side), in late December, the timing of the Power6-based servers and
future i5/OS V5R5 release was not made any more clear. I am not sure
why, but I think one reason is that the Power6 chip is about six to nine
months behind schedule ..."

"...Neither Herring nor Jarman wanted to talk all that much about one of
my favorite topics since October: user-based pricing for the System i
line. Both said that they had read the analysis I had put together with
great interest, but did not endorse my way of thinking very
enthusiastically. ..."

-Steve


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