[PMan74]

> IBM's recent demise

Somebody should let them know!

Certainly on a downward trend of late but ~80BN in revenues last year is far from dead

[hn_throwaway_99]

I'm assuming parent meant IBM's "relatively" recent demise. IBM lost many billions in the early 90s and was close to disaster, at the same time Microsoft (originally an IBM supplier!) was surging.