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- From: abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org (Al Bledsoe)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- Message-ID: <BzMHn5.IAq@sdf.lonestar.org>
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- Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
- References: <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <ZmwVVB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:49:53 GMT
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- In article <ZmwVVB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben) writes:
- >ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> Hi, netters just a thought. IBM doesn't seem to be doing so hot
- >> <other concerns deleted>
- >>
- >> Thanks,
- >>
- >> Ashwath Ram
- >
- >
- >IBM has purportedly just created a new division, this being the
- >Client/Server folks. 900 people were grabbed from elsewhere and dumped
- >into this bare room - probably full of telephones.
- >
- >Smart.
- >
- >Now, all they need to do is drum up a bit of business and stock this room
- >(and adjacent ones) with a few more people including those about to be
- >layed off. We'll see what happens here.
- >
- >As to the thousands of employees being layed-off, many of these employees
- >are probably redudant salespersons, mailboys, etc. etc., which are
- >actually a major hindrance to IBM's means of forward thinking - after
- >all - AT&T when broken lost many employees as well.
- >
- >Matt
- >
- Well I have been watching IBM since 1989 when first exposed to AIX and
- now OS/2. Been listening carefully to Phil Hester and Donna Van Fleet
- in Austin. IMHO, IBM has seen the writing on the wall for years. But
- did you notice the comp.unix.aix article 1788. IBM announced the first
- RS6000 based Shared Memory Parallel Processor or the POWER/4 which
- has four 42 MHZ risc processors and rates 336 MFLOPS. Has other optimizings
- for shared memory reducing memory bottlenecks, etc.
-
- Seems the announcement was Dec 10,1992 just before the stock plunge.
- IBM has had this technology for years, but now Austin is the capitol of
- IBM not Armonk. And while Akers will be kept busy making stock
- holders happy, Austin will keep turning up the clockrate. Yes, the
- internal IBM war is over -- the baldheads lost.
-
- Now OS/2 has been running on RS/6000's in Austin closets for awhile, now
- that they don't have to compete with themselves will they start leading
- or waiting for DEC(Alpha) or Microsoft(NT) to position their products??
- This is the question that concerns me. All the comments regarding
- profitability are well founded. IBM has some great OPEN products
- but they don't make as much money as the big iron did.
-
- I like the U.S. commercial which shows the IBM logo reacting to the
- changing market. I agree that IBM has done this, except for the final
- frame when the logo separates and goes through the holes in the wall
- as a bunch of small IBM logos. Everything is fine until they rejoin
- on the otherside of the wall. I'd say forget rejoining and please
- at least keep IBM-AUSTIN intact. Call it anything you like.
- ---
- abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org
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