Re: Hardware (was: System i Innovation Award -- Community Supportcategory)

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

This is not about hardware sales alone - that is all the IT Jungle figure 
represents. Shearer was talking about other revenue from iSeries. And that is 
what Aaron said.

Vern

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From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> 

> On 5/3/07, albartell wrote: 
> > > Sales are down 6 quarters in a row. 2 more quarters of down sales and IBM 
> > might pull the plug on the system. 
> >
> > Steve, as you are making your statements please be aware of this tidbit 
> > fact 
> > I picked up at COMMON from the mouth of Mark Shearer (and I paraphrase) 
> > "The 
> > combination of support and sales of System i5 hardware accounts for 1/2 of 
> > IBM's hardware monies". I don't believe the System i5 is going anywhere 
> > soon and making statements saying IBM is going to pull the plug is simply 
> > silly IMO. 
>
> you say silly, I say bullsh** ;) How does Shearer come up with that 
> number? Based on reports in ITJungle, the z,x and p are each doing $1B 
> sales per quarter and the i is less than $250M. That puts system i 
> hardware sales at less than 10% of the total. How does 10% become 
> 50%?? 
>
> -Steve 
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