>He may as well try for the big bucks while he can, as it looks like he won't >be needed soon. The CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard made the following >comment in the opening statement of this years annual report: >"The best way to steer a company toward growth is to look out four or five >years at the big market trends evolving, and then work backward to identify >opportunities... There will be continued movement toward a lower cost, >industry-standard, distributed computing environment and a shift away from >mainframe computing". >Does this mean HP is going to stop making mainframes? ;-)
"Continued movement"? Didn't IBM just announce its best mainframe revenue quarter since 1998 (the year of great Y2K preparation)? (Mainframes cost less than they did in 1998, by the way.) When is this movement going to start? <SARCASM>Darn that pesky IBM, investing billions year after year to deliver the industry's premier business servers year after year. Haven't they heard that what customers really want are systems that require little or no R&D expense?</SARCASM> I'd also be interested to know why HP recently *entered* the mainframe outsourcing business. My best guess is that HP identified an opportunity. Better not tell the CEO. :-) And yet another reminder: I do not speak for IBM. Especially about HP, which is a fine company, truly. I appreciate the great service I get from my "legacy" Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L printer, although I confess I don't buy cartridges from HP. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
