Re: Re-birth of IBM article in The Economist

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Carr wrote:

> 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).

John,

I've never trusted ZD as a independent and reliable source of computing
information.  Heck, I don't trust any publication that always features the "Hot
New" stuff and never goes back to look at the implications of product lines that
are second and third generations old (Motorcycle and Car magazines do this a lot
also).  So, sure, ZD is a shill for Wintel, but I don't lose any sleep over
that.  What does bother me is that more respectable publications like
ComputerWorld regularl overlook the AS/400.  I guess if it isn't broke, then
there is nothing to write about huh?

jte

(OK, OK, I'll write my letter to the editor  =: )





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