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  3. July 2007

Re: i5/OS on other hardware?

Gillette will give you their best razor if you promise to use their blades in it. I suspect HP and Lexmark would give you their best printer, too, if you promised to use their ink cartridges?

Steve Richter wrote:
On 7/18/07, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once again, the difference is in the amount of add-on services required by
the p. The i is pretty much ready to roll when it comes out of the box. The
difference is the OVERHEAD required to maintain a p.

listen to the IBM CFO today gushing over IBM's software sales. You can
argue that IBM would be wise to give away its hardware at cost just so
it can sell more high profit margin software and services.


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