On 20 Oct 2009 06:45:04 -0700, [email protected] (Edward Jaffe) wrote:
>This capitalist society has anti-trust laws. Hopefully, they will be >applied fairly before it's too late. What would you expect this enforcement to mandate? How will our society benefit? As I mentioned earlier - communities gave monopolies to cable companies - but technology took them away. When companies "upgrade" from mainframes to Sun clusters, then obviously those companies didn't consider the mainframes to be monopolistic. It's like the person who isn't in the business of buying drill bits - he's in the business of buying holes. We aren't in the market to buy mainframes, we are in the market of buying data solutions. Where's IBM's monopoly there? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
