JD,
Hi!!
RE: The job cuts, which stem from smaller-than-expected sales within IBM's server group, affect employees at IBM sites in Austin; Rochester, Minn.; and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Have an article written November 6th from the Poughkeepsie Journal...Headline: CUTS PROMPT VARIED VIEWS OF IBM FATE...Subtitle: Interpretations vary after news of cuts....
Long and too much to copy...Let's just say that some segments here fit perfectly with some of my friends opinions:
Lou ain't a happy camper JD...Use this when you read...
It's so painfully evident that IBM's core business is coming unstuck," said Will Zachmann, president of Canopus Research, Duxbury, Mass...."IBM will no longer be the predominant vendor in the industry. That mantle will pass to MSFT and INTC, leaders in software and microchips. As for machines, "I'd bet on DELL, just as a wild guess"...
"IBM's focus is no longer on hardware, it's on e-services and software." E-business, for electronic commerce, has been a major thrust of CEO and Chairman Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Workers at the plant have reacted negatively to the news, said Tom Steed, a Communications Workers of America organizer recently assigned to help IBMers form a union. "The message that we're trying to get across is that bit by bit, piece by piece, they're dismantling this company," he said.
I'm not going to be surprised...Sooner or later everyone has to come around if they want to survive...
"Those that sell DELL will be sorry"..
Kevin Rollins
Best, Kemble |
