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To: puborectalis who wrote (5557)9/17/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Jonathan Edwards  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8219
 
That concern is understandable, considering that IBM's hardware numbers generally generate the fattest profit margins. As Milunovich delicately puts it: "We think there may be a quality of earnings issue in 4Q..."

If the author of this article doesn't even know how to read a 10Q (software has by far the highest profit margins; hardware tends to fight it out with something else for second place) I wonder how valid the conclusions are...