Comments on: Penguin sends in a ray of financial sunshine http://insidehpc.com/2010/05/06/penguin-sends-in-a-ray-of-financial-sunshine/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: z http://insidehpc.com/2010/05/06/penguin-sends-in-a-ray-of-financial-sunshine/#comment-228880 z Wed, 26 May 2010 04:06:32 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11268#comment-228880 my understanding is that Penguin has been profitable more often than not over the last 2 years which in HPC land is not so easy these days. my understanding is that Penguin has been profitable more often than not over the last 2 years which in HPC land is not so easy these days.

]]> By: seriously http://insidehpc.com/2010/05/06/penguin-sends-in-a-ray-of-financial-sunshine/#comment-228656 seriously Tue, 25 May 2010 02:42:27 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11268#comment-228656 Penguin are you seriously excited about 1 quarter of profitability? Pretty sad. Penguin are you seriously excited about 1 quarter of profitability? Pretty sad.

]]> By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2010/05/06/penguin-sends-in-a-ray-of-financial-sunshine/#comment-226294 John West Mon, 10 May 2010 10:44:34 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11268#comment-226294 Jill - thanks for doing the homework on IBM and Dell. It definitely looks like that might be a high bar for hardware makers. I tried to do Appro and Atipa, but it looks like they are private. Bull is European and not required to report information in the same way as our other companies (although the data may be there, I just didn't find it). I looked at HPQ for 2009, and they were at $375k/EE. Jill – thanks for doing the homework on IBM and Dell. It definitely looks like that might be a high bar for hardware makers. I tried to do Appro and Atipa, but it looks like they are private. Bull is European and not required to report information in the same way as our other companies (although the data may be there, I just didn’t find it). I looked at HPQ for 2009, and they were at $375k/EE.

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]]> By: Jill http://insidehpc.com/2010/05/06/penguin-sends-in-a-ray-of-financial-sunshine/#comment-225436 Jill Fri, 07 May 2010 14:47:19 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11268#comment-225436 Interesting - a couple more rough data points IBM in FY 2009 had $100B in revenue and 400K employees - that translates to only $250K/employee Dell had $61B revenue and 76K employees - $888K/employees Is anyone at that $M mark? Most HPC hardware players will probably fall somewhere in between IBM and Dell. All depends on their margins. Interesting – a couple more rough data points
IBM in FY 2009 had $100B in revenue and 400K employees – that translates to only $250K/employee
Dell had $61B revenue and 76K employees – $888K/employees

Is anyone at that $M mark?

Most HPC hardware players will probably fall somewhere in between IBM and Dell. All depends on their margins.

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