Re: [Thinkpad] Re: I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market

this has been discussed at great length since the first news posted on my
open forum..
from the NYTimes article..

no company is going to pay $2B and make such huge and detrimental changes so
as to dilute or damage that which they just bought..

and i am still not sure ibm will sell the whole thing..

like many others have said, best to wait and see what really happens..

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From: "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS)" <rosenr@mail.nih.gov>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market

> Hard to say how this will shake out. Their desktops seem to be better
> quality since they outsourced them.
>
> Some of the existing manufacturing plants (e.g., Mexico) will remain I
> suspect since the US Government won't buy machines made in non-trading
> countries (we once had a Thinkpad order held up because the only ones
> available didn't come from an "acceptable" manufacturing country).
>
> Interesting that the first person to send me the article was my Dell
> salesman--especially since I told him Tuesday that I only buy Thinkpads.
I
> can hear him salivating now. ;-)
>
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