Word: pc
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...week Akers signaled IBM's intention to shift away from its mainframe business, which is down 10% this year. Most of the $1 billion reduction in R. and D. will occur in mainframe development. IBM, he said, will rely more on workstations to serve as the central host for PC networks. "The computer industry is in a time of fundamental transition," said Akers. "Customers more and more prefer smaller computers...
...Personal computers accounted for 20% of IBM sales of $63 billion last year and are expected to make up 40% by the year 2000. But IBM's growth in PCs lags far behind that of the rest of the industry. IBM is the only one of the top 10 PC vendors whose market share has declined this year. In fact, IBM's PC business...
DELL COMPUTER'S METEORIC RISE TO THE TOP ranks of the personal-computer industry has kept rivals wondering for some time how the manufacturer has managed to sustain its miraculous climb. Then a Wall Street analyst claimed he had the answer: the PC maker's ascent had less to do with miracles than with some sleight-of-hand accounting. In a blistering report to investors, David Korus of Kidder, Peabody charged that Dell accounted improperly for foreign- currency trades and suggested that currency speculation may have been used to inflate the company's profits. The report touched off a wave...
...wanted to present Virginia as a particular individual with her own hangups, her own problems and her own good points as well. It takes place in the '70s when people were not quite as informed. One of the things I felt was that I did not have to feel PC...
Even mighty IBM has caught the fever. The world's largest computer maker was slow to respond to the rounds of price cutting this summer, and as a result its share of the personal-computer market slipped precipitously. But Big Blue's freshly restructured PC division showed a new nimbleness last week. The day after Compaq's latest price cut, IBM unveiled its long-awaited PS/ ValuePoint series: a line of desktop computers aimed at high-volume corporate buyers and priced to sell for less than comparable Compaq machines -- in one case, exactly $5 less...