__/ [ John Locke ] on Wednesday 09 May 2007 01:59 \__
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 01:16:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Red Hat, IBM form mainframe partnership
>>
> Well I hope it works out. IBM and Red Hat seem to be at least half-way
> decent companies.
If the theory/information from Cringely [1] is correct, then IBM is not just
half-way decent, but destined to be half its current size. These claims have
been dismissed.
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[1] Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
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| This is according to my many friends at Big Blue, who believe
| they are about to undergo the biggest restructuring of IBM
| since the Gerstner days, only this time for all the wrong reasons.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html
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