Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 04, 2004 10:17 PM
IBM is known to do this every 5 years , they say there getting out of the PC business and then suddenly they annonce that they are back. Getting rid of there old infrastructure at an immense profit will doing so.
IBM make its money on its patent portfolio and its service side , the PC division is loosing money almost every years.
IBM never fully embraced GNU/Linux , they just joined in when they taught it whas profitable for them to do so and they only joined in certain area they knew would not interfere too much with there current business.
Whe may never know what kind of signal to the IT world IBM removing entirely Windows from its own PC line might have done.
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they do this every 5 years
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 04, 2004 10:17 PMan immense profit will doing so.
IBM make its money on its patent portfolio and its service side , the PC division is loosing money almost every years.
IBM never fully embraced GNU/Linux , they just joined in when they taught it whas profitable for them to do so and they only joined in certain area they knew would not interfere too much with there current business.
Whe may never know what kind of signal to the IT world IBM removing entirely Windows from its own PC line might have done.
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