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The extent of the slide in System x sales in Blighty during the final year under IBM ownership was laid bare today, and the eye-watering declines were bad: bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good. The UK server market didn't exactly enjoy a vintage fourth quarter; spending declined 5.3 per cent to $503m and unit shipments went …

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  1. asdf

    can't resist

    So is the saying now nobody ever got fired for buying Lenovo? Didn't think so. Oh well more layoffs and stock buy backs all around.

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    1. T. F. M. Reader
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      Re: nobody ever got fired for buying Lenovo

      To me it actually sounds more like "people can get fired for selling IBM"...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Lenovo are going to have a hard time selling anything, at least outside their home market. A Chinese company with a proven track record for shipping tin with malware. Hmm....

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  3. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Der Aufschwung!

    But some customers deferred purchases due to some lingering economic uncertainty

    "lingering" as in "this Chernobyl reactor core sure has been lingering during the last 2 seconds"?

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