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- From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: IBM CORPORATE LOSS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.092554.26383@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 09:25:54 GMT
- References: <C15nCD.F4@newcastle.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <C15nCD.F4@newcastle.ac.uk> Craig.Graham@newcastle.ac.uk
- (Craig Graham) writes:
- >I was most amused to hear on the Evening News (on the Radio), that IBM has just
- >made the biggest corporate loss EVER in the history of corporate losses......
-
- (With apologies to those who read this group for informative articles)
-
- A friend of mine was told these 'facts' at his employee induction course with
- a clone manufacturer.
-
- "IBM has so many employees worldwide that if they were all in one
- place and that place was called a country then it would be the fifth
- largest country in the world."
-
- "IBM has so much money in the bank that the interest alone can pay
- those peoples wages such that they could stop making computers
- tomorrow and still keep everyone in a job if they had a mind to."
-
- I dunno how true these statements are but even if there is some truth in them
- then I doubt that the financial loss will hurt them much.
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