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IBM To Leave The Desktop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-could-be dept.

Matey-O writes "John C. Dvorak's got an interesting article on IBM's behavior towards desktop PCs of late. In short, aside from the profitable laptop sales, their desktop sales lost the company roughly $1B in a serioulsy UP market. Showing no interest in the 20 year anniversary of the desktop, it looks like IBM wants to get out of the industry it effectively started. " Granted, the article is extreme conjecture, but it's still an interesting thought - the Thinkpad group, tho', rocks.

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  1. John C. Dvorak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    John C. Dvorak has been a corporate whore since 1995 or 6. He is the WORST writer I've ever seen and his "predictions" are pathetic at best.

    I think it's safe to say that he's worse than Katz.

    He is useless and wasted space in the Zdnet world but they keep him on. Lord knows why.

    Don't believe anything he writes. 99.99% of the time it's bullshit and wrong.

  2. LUNIX will save them!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    YES! By the Power of Open Source... I am HE-MAN! By all means, everyone must get together and the powerfully organized and brilliant Open Source community can save IBM!

    Wait. WTF am I talking about? Open Source has only produced a broken toy operating system. My bad.