> On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 11:02:23 AM PDT, Bob Bridges
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to keep things complicated, if I sell X to company M,
IBM has the right to sell anything it owns even if its to Bill Gates. It's not
hindsight to say IBM has a lot of software that simply exists. They sold
software that wasn't as profitable as MVS but not a complete loss. They didn't
see the potential of selling lots of small stuff (MS Windows & Office) and
decided to concentrate on MVS. Microsoft net worth is now 100X IBM. Once IBM
decided it was a mistake, they started investing into OS/2. How do you rate
these businesses choices?
On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 11:02:23 AM PDT, Bob Bridges
<[email protected]> wrote:
Just to keep things complicated, if I sell X to company M, and company M makes
a mint on it, it doesn't ~necessarily~ follow that it was a mistake for me to
sell it. Could be that M was likely to make a mint on X and I was not.
And after all, is IBM worse off because Microsoft is selling PCs to the world?
Seems to me you could argue that the ubiquity of PCs is ~helping~ IBM mainframe
sales.
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On the whole, I consider IBM excellent compared to how other companies but it's
undeniable that they have made some bonehead choices. Was it a smart decision
for IBM to sell the software that became Microsoft?....
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On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 11:02:23 AM PDT, Bob Bridges
<[email protected]> wrote:
Just to keep things complicated, if I sell X to company M, and company M makes
a mint on it, it doesn't ~necessarily~ follow that it was a mistake for me to
sell it. Could be that M was likely to make a mint on X and I was not.
And after all, is IBM worse off because Microsoft is selling PCs to the world?
Seems to me you could argue that the ubiquity of PCs is ~helping~ IBM mainframe
sales.
---
Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
/* I will frankly admit that I'm afraid of medical care. I trace this fear to
my childhood, when, as far as I could tell, the medical profession's reaction
to every physical problem I developed, including nearsightedness, was to give
me a tetanus shot. -Dave Barry, 1996 */
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jon
Perryman
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 13:27
On the whole, I consider IBM excellent compared to how other companies but it's
undeniable that they have made some bonehead choices. Was it a smart decision
for IBM to sell the software that became Microsoft?....
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