Global to the Core, or, Why IBM Can't Tell You How Much Money It Spends on Globalization
http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2003/2.1/sullivan.html

Sullivan, Bill
LISA
2003

Abstract:

LISA is in the process of updating its Localization Primer, a publication read by people around the world interested in learning about localization. As part of this process LISA decided to update some figures about how companies spend their localization budget, so Mike Anobile called up Bill Sullivan of IBM to ask him how IBM spends its localization budget. Bill replied that he couldn't say, that he had no idea how much money IBM spends on globalization or what areas the money is spent in. What's more, he said that he was "delighted and indeed proud that [IBM does] not have that data".