Re: IBM Furlough

Please direct me to companies oblivious of cost. I am looking for one customer that will pay me massive fees so I can take the rest of the year off. :-)

Remember that IBM isn't truly a hardware company at all any longer and gets a small amount of it's overall revenue from hardware. While they own a large amount of intellectual capital and many many patents they don't manufacture much of what they sell. They design, they contract the manufacture, and then they assemble the final product. Of course there are exceptions like the POWER Processors but largely you'll see stickers on boards, cables, drives, etc telling who made them and where.

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On 8/6/2013 4:07 PM, Matt Olson wrote:

Doesn't elaborate if that's because of their X86 market or the Power market not making ends meet. Would be interesting to know.

I know they have been trying to sell the X86 server market to Lenovo like they did with their desktop PC brands. This is perhaps due to razor thin profit margins on servers you can get cheaper from Dell/HP.

Their thinking might be why sell X86 stuff with its extremely low profit margins, when you can sell proprietary stuff with huge sticker prices and much larger profit margins to those companies that are oblivious of cost.

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