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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Apple Profit Up 27 Pct., Beating Views
>
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>| Apple Easily Beats Wall Street Expectations As Fourth-Quarter
>| Profit Rises 27 Percent
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061018/earns_apple.html?.v=20
>
> HP Passes Dell in World PC Shipments
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>| Hewlett-Packard Supplants Dell As the World Leader in
>| Personal Computer Shipments
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061018/pc_shipments.html?.v=3
>
> Earlier this week...
>
> Intel's report indicated a decline as well while IBM, being
> a 'Linux ally', rose dramatically. It appears as though
> the Intel-Dell-Microsoft trio is crumbling. It has been
> an exclusive club of minimal choice, kickbacks, and closed
> standards.
>
It does seem to be falling apart. In Intel's defence, though, they were
one of the founding members of the OSDL, and have also been pushing the
ATCA standard, too.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Department chairmen never die, they just lose their faculties.
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