Re: I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip Yeah, I was astounded to see this bubble up high enough that a gas station blabber-at-you-while-you-pump screen had the story! unsnip--- Seems like a

Re: I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-27 Thread zMan
Um, what??? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: -snip Yeah, I was astounded to see this bubble up high enough that a gas station blabber-at-you-while-you-pump screen had the story!

Re: I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-27 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I don't think IBM allows competitors the duplicate mainframe hardware. The company was built from the fact (and see those companies that didn;t survive) that it left room for software vendors (and hardware manufactures) to compete with and to win software (operating system) and software. at a

I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-26 Thread Charles Mills
Here, something to talk about besides the pronunciation of subsystem names (to which I confess I contributed). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/business/27blue.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/business/27blue.html?_r=1hp hp The commission's investigations involved complaints

Re: I.B.M. Is Target of Antitrust Inquiry

2010-07-26 Thread zMan
Yeah, I was astounded to see this bubble up high enough that a gas station blabber-at-you-while-you-pump screen had the story! -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /