It can be seen, this can not do without a stable and efficient management information platform. In 2009, Chinas real estate market is fully warmed up, in order to better speed up business development, subsidized housing home to their own information system, a comprehensive upgrade. The information in this upgrade project, for the operating system and office systems, subsidized housing replacement chosen Microsofts latest operating system Windows 7, and will upgrade to Microsoft Office System Office2007. Subsidized public housing replacement chain number, widely distributed, business uneven level of information technology staff, which for ease of use the operating system has a very high demand, the same time, subsidized housing replacement of a limited number of IT operation and maintenance personnel, not every store is equipped with the appropriate operation and maintenance engineers, therefore, the stability of the operating system and remote management support is also subsidized housing replacement of the value factors.
Weak dollar also contributed to revenue growth. If you consider the exchange rates, third quarter sales of IBMs revenue grew by only 3%. IBM business is the most closely watched indicator of the service contract amount. IBM third-quarter service contract signed last year by the amount of 105 million U.S. dollars to 118 billion dollars. Analysts fear that the current subprime mortgage crisis will affect the amount of IBM signed services contracts because of financial services IBM services business enterprises is the largest customer base. Services revenue increased 14% to 13.6 billion. If you take into account exchange rates, this figure will drop to 10%; hardware revenue fell 10% to 4.9 billion U.S. dollars, taking into account exchange rates, decline to reach 13%. Hardware business sales declined in part because the printer can be attributed to the sale of the business, but sales of other products also saw a decline. Mainframe revenue fell 31%, large-scale server revenue fell 21%, chip sales fell 15%.