IBM Sells POS Busiiness to Toshiba

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Submission + - IBM Sells POS Busiiness to Toshiba (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by ErichTheRed on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @12:36PM

ErichTheRed writes: Yet another move by IBM out of end-user hardware — Toshiba will be buying IBM's retail point-of-sale systems business for $850M. I'm not an MBA, but is it REALLY a good idea for a company defined by good (and in this case high-margin) hardware to sell it off in favor of nebulous consulting stuff?? Is there really no money in hardware anymore? I doubt they'll ever sell their Power systems or mainframes off, but you never know!

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