Re: No future for DB2

From: bka <badamache_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:54:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1123091657.343068.47900@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

3. While less than 20% of IBM's revenue, software like DB2 contributes close to 40% of IBM's profit. Margins on software are higher than they are on services and hardware. The reasons should be obvious: selling marginal units of hardware or services require more expensive inputs (manufacturing and humans). Selling marginal units of DB2 requires more CD's, a cheap input.

Businesses are in business to make profit, so DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows is strategic to IBM.

4. DB2 revenue on UNIX is not "relatively small" - it's comparable to DB2 revenue on mainframes. Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 12:54:17 CDT