Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:27:09 01/14/03
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On January 14, 2003 at 03:56:53, Mark Schreiber wrote: >On January 11, 2003 at 20:22:04, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>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 > >IBM can’t develop high technology products that are more innovative than their >competitors. The joint ventures are an attempt at buying innovation. I just >remembered 1 more failure. IBM’s and AT&T develop the Multics operating system. >The quantum computer isn’t a joint venture. It won’t be practical for many >decades. It is strictly for public relations similar to deep blue. >Mark I may be wrong, but I don't remember IBM being involved in Multics, at least not in the early years of the development. I seem to remember that was a Honeywell project initially along with at least CMU and probably other academic institutions. However, IBM certainly led the world into the world of integrated circuits. that started the PC revolution, disk drive innovations, the list goes on and on. I doubt any single company owns more patents than they do.
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