Paul,
In your vision of the IBM on-line UPLOAD store, and assuming that "Broadband Providers" * will someday be able to provide enough bandwith, will the IBM store also permit customers to UPLOAD slightly used IBM harware. Systems like IBM's ultra mass storage device, which they have now had to substitute with STK's "Iceberg", or the "Blue Lightening PC chip, or Power PCs, or very slightly used CYRX chips. I realize that we may have to wait longer for "Broadband Providers" * to supply supper band widths to handle the oversized CYRX chips, but they will be unused you realize.
In addition, can we assume that IBM will honor taking back Lotus' software products also. Lotus "Office Suite" with Amipro, and maybe "Notes" if Internet E-mail keeps on growing.
* Although not mine, there is a Patent Pending on the prissy term, "Broadband Provider"
Jules |
