IBM made mistakes back in the 1980's and 1990's from which they may never
really recover.
1) Doing away with the THINK motto. It seems about the time they did this
is when many of them stopped thinking.
2) Stopped giving the systems almost free to colleges which stopped the
flow of trained personnel. MS and Apple learned from this mistake.
3) They almost eliminated VM for heavens sake, and now others have
re-invented it and taken the market. Someone clearly was NOT THINKing.
4) They invented the PC and did not see the potential in it. It's like
Edison inventing the light bulb, saying "That's nice" and walking away.
Inexcusable.
Had they NOT done these things, cost would not be such a problem. As
it is, lowering cost is about their only choice. Not a good place to be.
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