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From: jmbj@whuts.UUCP (BITTMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: An advertisement I'd like to see
Message-ID: <4806@whuts.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 14:28:42 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> Nobody tells us software hacks why they do what they do in marketing,
> but I only have to guess IBM does so much more advertising because IBM
> is selling more than just micros.  Indeed I've heard it described before
> that micros are just a PR effort for IBM to sell mainframes and minis.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm not sure exactly where I saw it, but recently I saw a pie-chart of
IBM's revenues.  The micro portion was around 6.5 BILLION, and that 
amounted to I think about a 1/4 of IBM's total, the numbers are
probably not totally accurate, but one thing for sure is that IBM
does NEED its micro income.

Jim Bittman, whuts!jmbj