Re-birth of IBM article in The Economist

>Every turnaround has its sceptics. Mr Gerstner?s critics focus on the fact
that,
>although IBM?s distributed-software business (ie, products such as Lotus
Notes that
>run on a variety of platforms) has been growing fast (about 11% last
year),   around
>70% of its total software sales are proprietary products, mainly for its  
S/390 and
>AS/400 host computers. This is evidence, argue the critics, that
mainframes    are still
>the locomotive for most of the revenues; and mainframes are a declining
business.
>There is some truth in this, but it paints an excessively bleak picture.

>You can find the entire article at
>http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/wb9431.html.
>Thanks to John Carr for highlighting www.news.com......
>Michael Crump
>Technical Project Leader
>Ball-Foster Glass Container Corp.

Hmm.
70 % of the software sales come form proprietary products,   Hmmm.    And
they defined 
Non-Proprietary how ?     Could it be writing to the Win32 API's by any
chance ?  

It's interesting I got that same perspective from reading 5 different
magazines,  It must be true eh?

I read the same article Micheal.       

Has anyone signed on to WWW.CMPNET.COM ?    Did you scroll to the bottom?  
Did you see 
how many magazines are owned by the same company ?  (aka ZD).    

I wonder what would be the result if the majority of the information that
was available to be consumed,
came from a single company(thru its various channels) ?    Imagine if the
public (as concerned as they are about who puts out the information) 
actually thought that they were getting multilple different 
viewpoints from reading 5-10 different magazines ?  (Oh ya,  I got the same
opinion from reading  5 different mags.  It must be true eh?)  Imagine if
that company had lots of  stock in a particular company ?    
Or imagine if a software company was able to own directly a major web news
outlet. 
Or held such a position in the industry that it could sway editorials via
advertising,  inside scoops,  
pre-annoucement info,  free sofware, etc.  
Or or or

I guess I shouldn't have read 1984 at such a young and impressionable age. 


John Carr

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