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IBM did not do well in in the 1970's turning Bill Gates and his PC software and products.

Gates & his Microsoft Fortune$ are forever thankful


At 07:43 PM 4/20/2009, sjl wrote:


Don wrote:

> Oh this is going to be interesting as IBM allows the iSeries to continue
> down it's IBM imposed legacy abandonment path, I would expect to see pSeries
> sales level and drop off, especially those running Oracle in the near
> future, and Oracle's sales continue to improve. Now, Oracle can be one stop
> shopping.hardware, database and applications.
>
> Maybe IBM will wake up and realize just how much of a good system they have
> in iSeries and start getting serious about it again..nah, that's just
> dreaming.. :-)




Don -



To use a somewhat technical term coined by Tom Wolfe in his book 'The Right Stuff', I believe that by /not/ buying Sun that IBM....



'Screwed The Pooch'! ;-D



- sjl



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