Anton Britz wrote:
Hi,
Just to get all these "Wandering minds" on to something more productive :
How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so "rosy" ?
All the other vendors have annouced "buy backs" ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM still
announced fantastic results.
Something smells fishy some where..
Anton
Maybe it what their business, or businesses, is.
IBM sells a wide variety of servers, tape systems, disk/dasd/SAN
systems, software. In addition to that they do outsourcing, managed
services, and consulting services.
Sun has almost as wide variety of hardware as IBM, but I don't think
they have nearly as wide of variety of software and other services.
Dell is basically desktop, laptop, and servers. They have some other
products but they are a minor player in those products and I don't think
they account for a lot of sales. I mean when you go to buy a TV, do you
think Dell? For the most part they sell PC's. I would say that a lot
of their customers are home and small business customers. When the
economy either seems or is having problems, those are the customers that
stop buying first.
I think the wider variety of products/services you offer the better off
you can survive varying economic conditions.
Think about it. If you have a store that sells 2 different things, a
store that sells 5 different things, and a store that sells 20 different
things. Which one will most likely do good the majority of the time?
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