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Re: IBM investment in i

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently I read Tom Watson Jr's book about IBM and his dad, T J Watson.
IBM became great because T J Watson believed in sales. Everything he
and therefore IBM did was driven by a desire for sales. Today's IBM is
a far cry from what T J demanded.

profits are sky high at IBM. I think they figure that operating
systems and run time frameworks are not as profitable as middleware
and end user applications. They also dont want to compete where
Microsoft is strongest - operating systems, frameworks, languages.

-Steve

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