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- Subject: Re: IBM CORPORATE LOSS
- Message-ID: <9gZ2XB3w165w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:44:43 GMT
- References: <11849@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Organization: The CServer at the Z*NET International Global News Gateway
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- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
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- > neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
- >
- > > "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."
- >
- > China = 1000M
- > India = 866M
- > USA = 252M [CIS excluded - it's a collection of countries
- > Indonesia = 193M
- > Brazil = 155M
- >
- > So, let's say IBM has at LEAST 156M employees. (though I've probably
- > missed some other HUGE country somewhere, like Australia :-])
- > Warwick
-
- Yes you did Warwick, there is a major factory in Wangerata in NSW with
- the head office in Sydney. The NSW factory produces among other thinks
- AS400's, PS2's etc etc
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