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- From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
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- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
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- Date: 20 Dec 92 07:44:51 GMT
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- According to hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen):
- >Cash cow? I don't think so. The most optimistic numbers I've heard are
- >2 million units sold. Lots went out at what ....$49. Others have gone
- >to retail outlets and since the retail outlets have to make a profit
- >the full price of these units did not go to IBM. Subtract costs for
- >disks, manuals, suppport!!!!, bug fixes!!!!, shipping, order taking,
- >advertising, beta testing, etc. and there is no way that this product
- >*at this time* is a cash cow. If IBM got an average of $50 per unit
- >sold then they received at most $100,000,000 from OS/2 sales. This is
- >not much in a company that has over $50,000,000,000 in sales. It is at
- >most .2% of their sales.
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- Let's remember everything associated with OS/2, though. Namely big
- corporate customers with PS/2 installations, vertical applications, LAN
- Server support, CICS, and so on. The consulting and service arrangements
- that IBM maintains and can build in this area WILL bring in money. Maybe
- not a cash cow, but certainly part of a profitable business. The OS/2 base
- operating system itself doesn't earn much money, but it's everything
- associated with it that will.
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