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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 07:21:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
- > Hi, netters just a thought. IBM doesn't seem to be doing so hot
- >financially they just said they are going to be laying off 25,000
- >more people next year this after 40,000 have already been allocated
- >to be laid off this year. Computer market analysts seem to think
- >that IBM's profitability cannot improve unless global markets which
- >are in recession improve as 30% of IBM's sales and 45% of their
- >profits are from abroad. They doing some major reshuffling, what
- >about the future of OS/2, how does it work into their long term plans.
- >Will they be able to put in the same sort of resources into its
- >support that Microsoft can put into NT. IBM has deep pockets so the
- >impact is not being felt now. could some IBM'er comment on what is
- >happening to the company and how as a customer I be confident that
- >I will continue to receive the best operating system.
- >
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Ashwath Ram
- >
-
- I think it would be prudent to ask the question as to where the
- cuts are coming from. Remember, IBM has started decentralizing it's
- busineses and while the PC products Division may be going great
- guns, their mainframe division may be suffering terribly, so you
- might find the cuts coming from a source that has little to no
- impact on the product (OS/2) that you are currently using. Also,
- IBM is among the most conservative of the blue chip stock companies
- and has long earned it's reputation as a stable commodity in the
- volatile stock market. This implies that they have planned for this
- and are trimming the fat from the company to be come more
- competative.
-
- While the numbers are gargantuan as compared to someone like
- Borland or Microsoft, it represents a much smaller percentage of
- IBM as a whole than Microsoft. I would not worry about OS/2 support
- suffering. Right now, it's becoming a cash cow for them and they
- have announced plans to integrate it into their other system
- platform. As long as people continue to buy OS/2, IBM will continue
- to promote it's growth and useability.
-
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