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Todos estos logros se los debemos al genio de Sam Palmisano. Aguante SAM!!!
Dear IBMer: We have just issued our financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009. You can read them on w3. Overall, we concluded a strong financial year with a solid fourth quarter, under extremely challenging economic circumstances, while making significant progress against our strategic objectives. Although revenues were down 8 percent for the year (5 percent at constant currency) – to $96 billion – gross profit margin rose for the sixth straight year, and we achieved strong profit, cash flow and earnings per share. Our pre-tax income was $18 billion, up 9 percent. Net income also rose 9 percent. We generated $15.1 billion of free cash flow, up $800 million, excluding Global Financing receivables. And our earnings-per-share were $10.01 – an increase of 13 percent. I want to thank you for everything you did to achieve these results. They are a testament to superior execution by 400,000 IBMers, and to the strategic transformation of our company over the past several years. We are able to generate strong profit margins because of our shift to higher-value businesses, investment in our growth strategies and improvements in productivity. In the fourth quarter, IBM revenue was up 1 percent. Services revenue rose 2 percent and signings were strong at $18.8 billion, up 9 percent. We continued to increase Services’ profitability, with pre-tax income rising 7 percent. Software revenue was up 2 percent – led by WebSphere, which grew 13 percent. Software pre-tax income rose 10 percent. Both Services and Software reached $8 billion in pre-tax income for the year.Although Systems
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