Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:52:05 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 01:45:15, Matt Taylor wrote: ><snip> >>(2) To the best of my knowledge, IBM has never worked with Apple or >>Hewlett-Packard to develop a GUI operating system. Period. IBM's GUI >>operating system was OS/2, a joint project between Microsoft and IBM >>(later taken over by IBM). ><snip> > >Perhaps best not to mention OS/2... > >IBM charges more for OS/2 Warp 4.0 than Microsoft charges for Windows XP >Professional. > >If IBM is guilty of anything, it is not engineering incompetance but marketting >incompetance. > >-Matt Correct. In the early 60's Univac _owned_ the data processing market. They blew it. In the late 60's and thru the 1970's, IBM owned the DP market. They blew it. They felt that the PC would be a home-use only device, never thinking that as they got faster they would supplant mainframes. The rest is history. But their technology has _always_ been at the top of the heap. Their marketing decisions were often good, but when they were bad, they were _really_ bad...
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