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IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year

October 24, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. …

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January 25, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …

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