Given that IBM has sold their desktop division to Lenovo, and IBM involvement with Apple is widely rumored... what might be their motivations for releasing this Redbook now? To put it another way, the only IBM interest I can see in this matter is to generate as much IBM GS work as possible.
You've overlooked discounting in your calculation - the payback period would be considerably longer.
That was my favorite ever column of The Onion! After reading that, I was sure "they" were following me around ...
> Sigh. Those were friendlier times. Maybe. And you were white.
Given that IBM has sold their desktop division to Lenovo, and IBM involvement with Apple is widely rumored ... what might be their motivations for releasing this Redbook now? To put it another way, the only IBM interest I can see in this matter is to generate as much IBM GS work as possible.