> He’s basically updating the “Apple buys NeXT” story from the mid-90s. Apple was > much bigger and better known, but was having some financial woes after some > management mis-steps. Within a couple of years, nearly every Apple exec was > gone, replaced by people from NeXT. The Mac OS was replaced by NeXTSTEP, > which was re-christened as OS X.
Wasn't one of those people at NeXT Steve Jobs? It's much easier to transform the culture when you were instrumental in originally establishing it. > Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-) It could, but it seems unlikely that a culture as entrenched as the one at IBM will suddenly flip, for better or worse. I would imagine that mainframe salespeople will still be in their blue suits when pushing big iron to other corporate behemoths. -Jerry --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/caksnnohplmveq5lykk7k_p_+kfoqkdhsp4vgcsuast16smn...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.