In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5. Buy to acquire skills. It is interesting that Univac bought > the RCA design, but didn't keep the computer designers after they > built their RCA like computer. So IBM hired the laid off engineers > and built theirs.
Univac was looking at the revenue stream of the maintenance contracts for the existing RCA installed base. They didn't lay off the RCA FE's. -- Randy Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
