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To: rudedog who wrote (42352)3/24/2001 2:01:14 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
If VMS is the "most profitable in pure dollars" business CPQ has, then maybe they should stop selling PC's (perhaps sell that group to Dell) and focus on VMS.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (TM)



To: rudedog who wrote (42352)3/24/2001 2:44:58 PM
From: Joseph Pareti  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
and in addition it runs on equipment with ECC memory, while sunmicro availability is 98% (ONE 9 -- source Gartner Group)



To: rudedog who wrote (42352)3/25/2001 10:43:34 AM
From: paul  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
"..growing at about 7%"

I suspect this is service or maintenance revenue contracts - 7% growth if it were for VAX hardware is faster than all of IBM's Server business combined which is hard to imagine.