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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Friday, 06 May 2005
ZDnet article Is IBM close to avenging OS/2’s death? It’s been almost 15 years since Microsoft jilted IBM’s OS/2 at the altar, kicking Big Blue while it was already down (financially), and exacerbating the old school company’s global state of disarray — one that outsider (IBM’s first ever) Lou Gerstner managed to turn around after he was brought on board in 1993. One year later, a group of Gerstner’s handpicked technical advisors identified Sun’s Java as the strategic technology on which some of IBM’s fortunes could be protected or regained from Bill Gates, who, with a roadmap for Windows NT then firmly under his belt, was beginning to turn his attention towards one of IBM’s most coveted domains: its data centers.... http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1313&tag=nl.e539 Source: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (0) Comments |
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