[email protected] (Steve Comstock) writes: > IBM blew it 20-30 years ago when they stopped being generous > to colleges and universities. Looking at the short term.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#74 mainframe "selling" points http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#75 mainframe "selling" points 20yrs ago IBM had gone into the red (significantly accelerated by stranglehold that the communication group had on datacenters). corporate executives had been preping the company for breakup ... recent references to old time article "baby blues" ... restructuring as part of preperation for breackup http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#61 What is holding back cloud adoption? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#63 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More the board then brings in Gerstner to resurrect the company and for a complete make over ... other recent posts mentioning Gerstner http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#34 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#72 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#74 Why So Many Formerly Successful Companies Are Failing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#4 Think You Know The Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#12 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#16 Hierarchy http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#35 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#54 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#55 The Invention of Email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#65 What are your experiences with Amdahl Computers and Plug-Compatibles? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#9 Sandy Weill's About-Face on Big Banks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#15 Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#21 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#34 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#46 Slackware http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#49 1132 printer history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#70 END OF FILE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#20 X86 server http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#27 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#63 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#69 Cultural attitudes towards failure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank! http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#8 General Mills computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#14 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#32 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Obscurity or is it Security by Design? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#60 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#61 What is holding back cloud adoption? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
