Re: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

Well, even if they had bought Cisco way back when, do you suppose the meddlers 
in
Armonk would have left it alone to become king of the Internet or would they 
have
stifled it in bureaucracy?

Randy Mangham
Pacific Crest Consulting
San Diego, CA

Chuck Lewis wrote:

> And here's ANOTHER one...
>
> >From a note in Network World 9/6/99, page 84 "IBM'S NHD: RIP" box...
> by Michael Cooney about IBM's Network Hardware Division biting the dust and 
>WHO
> is a big reason why...
>
> "Ellen Hancock headed the Networking Hardware and Networking Software division
> until 1995. Sources say that overtures were made during here tenure to have 
>IBM
> buy then-upstart Cisco. Hancock refused"
>
> I KNOW it could be considered hindsight by some, but come on...
>
> Chuck
>
> Joel Fritz wrote:
>
> > I agree that the micro channel architecture was pretty cool.  The point I
> > was trying to make was that IBM frequently has a lack of communication
> > between the right and left hands.  IBM isn't quite like Atari and Commodore,
> > who both had superior technology in the late 80s and dis-marketed themselves
> > into oblivion, but I think there's a parallel.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:17 PM
> > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > > Subject: RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347
> > >
> > >
> > > >At COMMON in '95 (spring) I went to a presentation on how to choose a
> > > >network server.  It was presented by a knowledgeable well
> > > meaning guy from
> > > >IBM.  Part of the presentation concerned the superiority of the micro
> > > >channel architecture over EISA and ISA.  '95 was the year
> > > that IBM dropped
> > > >the PS/2 line.
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, it was a true statement--  PS/2 -was- a better architecture.
> > >
> > > The fact that they were about to hand it over to the boat
> > > anchor department
> > > has nothing to do with the truth of the statement.
> > >
> > > Of course, IBM tied the PS/2 architecture up in so many
> > > licensing knots
> > > that  no one was making cards for it, which left IBM to
> > > charge mainframe
> > > prices for a piece of a PC>
> > >
> > > --Paul E Musselman
> > > PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> > >
> > >
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