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Subject: Re: Another joint venture doomed to fail

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 17:22:04 01/11/03

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On January 10, 2003 at 17:21:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Nor current events. It has been a little while since I looked into it, but last
I checked IBM held the world's largest (and most coherent) quantum computer.

-Matt



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