Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

Not the reason they developed it in the first place, but evidently the 
direction they are taking now.
They never gave up on the Fort Knox idea.

...Neil





"Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
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2001/07/28 17:07
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So you think that the whole reason IBM developed the AS/400 in the first
place was to milk it to death today? How did they know?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.


> The ones being milked know which cow it is.
> Not a big cosmic accident, but a carefully planned
> and executed strategy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
>
> > Which cow? IBM obviously has many irons in the fire, software, many
> > platforms of hardware, and now a big services company. On its way down
from
> > where? How did it get where it was for IBM to milk it? Was it all some
big
> > cosmic accident?





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