From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [162.83.95.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.53]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 885357 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:18:27 -0500 Message-ID: <45D5CB42.4090304@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:18:26 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070206 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: New notebooks References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/16/07 03:24 am, Kris Steenhaut thus wrote : > And a proposito, I'm advising against Thinkpads (as everybody should > have done) since day one IBM sold out his lot to Lenovo, since almost > a year thus. Of course I was the bad guy (and still am I presume), but > don't tell me I was/I am to late. > IBM owns almost 19% of Lenovo. Sell out? No. They simply profited from the success of the label, and took in a bundle of cash - while still holding an 18.9% stake in the profits. Good business. If I owned IBM stock, I probably would have been pleased with the deal. (See http://tinyurl.com/ywlzfh for more details, as well as http://tinyurl.com/2aqur9 and http://tinyurl.com/2fkjgx - the latter two being less biased, IMO.) But this, too, is going far afield from where it should be on this list. If someone wants to bring us back into sync with Wi-Fi support on OS/2 and how that was impacted by the Lenovo acquisition of the ThinkPad marque, than by all means, please step up. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------