Big Blue IBM today announced its third quarter earnings report, showing profits up 54% year on year increase, from 1.5 billion to 22 billion U.S. dollars ($ 1.45 per share), the total income of 22.6 billion over the same period, up5% increase.
IBM software sales brought in 44 million (an increase of 9%), nearly one fifth of total revenue, IBM is also the main source of profits.Alleged, "Tivoli" increase 44%, "WebSphere" 30% of income, and information management software also increase by about 12%.In addition, part of the IBM software market also achieved double-digit sales growth.
Is IBM the only continue in the doldrums of the operating system: the total income of 552 million, down 6%.IBM Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge explained that this price reduction is mainly due to the operating system.
5.5 billion of hardware sales revenue, but profit is better software.z-series servers, p family of servers, storage systems and microelectronics products fared better, income increased by 25%, 10%, 12% and 29%.
The details of the video game hardware, IBM did not disclose, Loughridge said that the game is very important to IBM processor.Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii are the three major next-generation game consoles using the processor from IBM.