And at what price? Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH is said to have lost a UK bid after IBM offered a 57% discount, and elsewhere, Amdahl Corp blames its plunge in margins – 49% in the first quarter down to 38.4% in the third – on the fact that it has had to discount products by between 12% and 50% of list to win business – and says it sees the same kind of aggressiveness from IBM continuing through 1990; Amdahl also says that foreign business is growing faster than its US.
