Re: 5 straight quarters of negative sales growth

                                                                           
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Richter,Steve wrote:

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

<It'd be useful with a little more detail.

For example, "For the WebSphere family of software products, which
facilitate customers' ability to manage a wide variety of business
processes using open standards to interconnect applications, data
and operating systems, revenues increased 22 percent." Hmmm... how
much of what we spend on 'WebSphere XXXXX for iSeries' is diverted
into there?>

<Systems get more powerful. Less bucks buys more bang. And more LPARs
means more 'systems' yet fewer 'boxes'. It's hard to tell what the
numbers mean.>

Let's face the fact. This happens to Unix servers as well, unfortunately
only i
is losing ground...



Tom Liotta


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