Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:21:41 01/10/03
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On January 09, 2003 at 07:35:41, Mark Schreiber wrote: >On January 08, 2003 at 20:23:18, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On January 08, 2003 at 19:56:58, Michael Vox wrote: >> >>>Strangley, by the end of the day, both of the stocks had declined. Meaning that >>>potential investors do not foresee earning potential in the deal :( >> >>People can be dumb, can't they? >> >>I think it will be something to watch. I'm watching:o) >> >>Terry > >That’s because people have learned from history. IBM partners with other >companies because they can not develop high technology on its own. IBM supplies >the money; the other company does the work. They have tried this before. It >always fails miserably. They tried it with Siemens to make phone systems. With >Apple and HP to get a GUI OS. Motorola for CPU’s. Toshiba for memory chips. >Don’t expect any high technology products to come from this. >Mark IBM can't "develop high technology on its own"??? :) History sure doesn't support that...
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