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Dinosaur Down: IBM’s Q3 Earnings
The earnings release speaks for itself (love that typeface – they must still do press releases on a Selectric typewriter in the IBM museum), but a few comments: A billion dollar (as in $1,000,000,000) miss on the top line. Everything in varying levels of freefall, led by the swan dive of the hardware business (Power…
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Open Season: A Short Industrial Drama
Cloud Foundry had a pretty good week with endorsements from Baidu and IBM. Both relationships were developed after I left VMware so what follows is purely speculation on my part. But some companies have a tough time getting over their history and playbooks, so it is easy to imagine how things went down. Warning: this…
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Dino Watch: IBM’s Q2 Results
Image via Flickr Our favorite “technology” company IBM “beat” the number last week and saw its stock pop on Thursday after announcing earnings. Bloomberg cheered the results: “IBM Raises Annual Forecast After Earnings Top Analyst Estimates” International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer-services company, topped estimates with its second-quarter earnings and raised its…