[plug] [Fwd: OS/2] - found this interesting

[Luigi Cantoni]

> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Jeff Smith, director of IBM's OS/2 business line management, said IBM's
> > top 2000 worldwide OS/2 customers generate a revenue of "somewhere
> > between $US30 billion and $US40 billion", or about half of the $US80
> > billion company's total revenue.
> > He said its strength is built on a huge worldwide installed base of one
> > million IBM servers and five million clients.
> Say US$36 billion, divided by 6 million OS/2 boxes = US$6000 to IBM for
> each OS/2 box out there.
> Maybe these clients want to move to Linux?
> One would hope that IBM's Linux support might cause most of these OS/2
> users to switch to Linux if/when OS/2 does finally go by the way.
> Cheers,
> Colin
If I read the article correctly its not the OS/2 sales that get the
business its the extras ie hardware etc.
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Thanks Luigi
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