Mark Stahlman
Mark Stahlman
cylinders firing fourth ibm quarter shaping time visibility
IBM is firing on more cylinders than many expected. The fourth quarter is shaping up to be particularly strong. It's the first time in many years we have visibility to year-end and all indications are positive.
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This upgrade to 64 bits, which begins with servers, workstations and high-end game machines, is going to ripple through the entire market place. A year from now, very few people are going to be looking for 32 bit notebooks. This is a very big change. All the new software being written is (for 64-bit processors), so the consumer has a real choice for the first time in maybe 10 years.
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This is actually a fairly attractive multiple, ... Many seem to be trapped in a time machine, namely that we're dealing with a bubble here. But I don't think that's the case.
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He looked me in the eye and said, 'AOL is the future of Time Warner. We're going to make this thing work the way it was originally supposed to work,'
likely yahoo
Of the three, Yahoo would be the least likely winner,
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Telecom is the largest piece of Sun's business and that has gone from being a negative to an increasing positive. Telecoms are back in an infrastructure build mode,
next preview sounds
This sounds to me like a preview of what we're going to see next week.
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The transition to 64-bit computing is not in everyone's forecast. PC and server growth should be much higher than people are expecting and numbers for Dell will continue to come up,
becoming classic company less microsoft pc
Microsoft is becoming more and more a server company and less and less a classic PC company,
aside step
I think Scott has to step aside so there is no confusion.
conference discussed looking people product
I think most of what people will be looking for will be discussed on the conference call. There's a lot going on in the product front.
clear
Today, they made it clear they're not in trouble.
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IBM is perhaps the most important earnings call because this company is the one that has made itself out as a new model of a major tech company,
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If they are successful in saving that order of magnitude, it will fall directly to the bottom line.