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To: Time Traveler who wrote (57360)	6/6/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

IBM makes money off of selling Intel boxes. That is all IBM cares about. Their current strategy is not to displace Wintel by building a box in competition with Intel (your ref to the PowerPC) for the PC market but instead to push JAVA as a way to make Wintel irrelevant to that market segment --- which they see as being Internet dependant in a few years. Meanwhile they have the entire upper reaches of the server market to themselves and sell UNIX in the mid range server market and Wintel at the low end of the server market. Dependant upon Intel for their profits? Afraid that's just rhetoric.

To: Time Traveler who wrote (57360)	6/6/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Time Traveler Off topic I would question your statement saying that IBM became profitable again only when the Pentium was released. Can't see why you think this. IBM began profitable when they cut 180,000 people, and more importantly, when CMOS mainframes came onto the market and the world realized that PC's taking over everything was no more than a bunch of BS. IBM's PC business has been going downhill for some time now, they make their money on mainframes, midrange machines, and services... John