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Microsoft Sees IBM as Biggest Threat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the steve-jobs-chuckles-quietly dept.

Anonycat writes "Bill Gates gave an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show, claiming that IBM is the rival company Microsoft has their sights set on. From the article: 'People tend to get over focused on one of our competitors ... We've always seen that ... I'm never going to change the press' view about what the cool company to write about is. That's Google number 1 and Apple number 2 ... [IBM has] four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.'"

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  1. For a company that hates IBM... by Anonycat · · Score: 5, Informative

    From page 2 of the article: Also, IBM -- along with Toshiba Corp. (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Sony -- has developed the Cell microprocessor that will power Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console, a competitor to the Xbox 360, Microsoft's next-generation gaming unit. Who makes the chips for the Xbox360, again?

  2. Size matters... by hhr · · Score: 5, Informative
    Wow. You have to wonder what all those people at IBM do and marvel at how efficient MSFT and Google are.

    Google: Number of employees.. 4183 http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/facts.html
    Net earnings: $1.297 billion.
    Revenus $5.25 billion

    IBM: Number of employees...369277 http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/ibm.htm l
    Net earnings: $7.797 billion.
    Revenues: $94 billion

    MSFT: Number of employees... 57000 http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/microso ft.html
    Net earnings: 12.867 billion.
    Revenues $40.340 billion