While the quarter may provide a glimpse of the current state of the business, we believe that investors are far more interested in the potential impact of potential pending cost cuts on the company?s profit and loss.

We don?t see this quarter as being a major catalyst, in either direction, but we believe the trends will improve for IBM during 2006.

We like restructuring stories, and look for a better entry point to potentially get more constructive.

We believe that the stock will trade well into product announcements next week, which we believe will include low-end notebook.

Given sentiment, we expect some near-term upside in the stock capped by revenue growth issues.

We still like the HP story and think the stock has room for additional upside potential.