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Re: [News] IBM Replaces UNIX, Gain Share

On 2006-05-24, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>| IBM's overall server revenue fell, based on declines in revenue from
>| the company's Unix servers and mainframes.

 To be expected. The margins on those things are high, but they just
aren't viable long-term.

> But revenue from its x86
>| servers grew 11 percent and it increased its overall share of the market
>| by 0.7 percent.

 Entirely sensible, long-term. They can transition from the high-margin
but doomed "high end server" market and move to grabbing a big share of
the lower-margin, but much larger, 'commodity server' space.

-- 
 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                                 (313) 227-2317

 "The penalty for 'hacking' this system is $500,000 and 5 years in prison. 
 That's right. If you figure out a clever way to play an MP3 file on your
   TCPA machine, you're eligible for more time than a drunk driver that
  killed someone is." - Craig Kelley, on the Trusted Computing initiative

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