[Daffynition]

When was the last time IBM was relevant?

[bigheadfred]

May 17th, 1979. Ask Mrs Grover.

[aimhigh]

When was the last time IBM was relevant?

Years ago, I read that IBM held the patent to the 'cursor'.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

It was over in 1994-5 when IBM surrendered the PC OS market to Microsoft.

OS/2 was, and still is, a superior Operating System, so far above Windows. But IBM bigshots didn't have the backbones to fight for it.

They thought they could make it with "global consulting," but seriously, who is going to pay $300-500 per hour for IBM "experts?" Only fools, and they don't stay in business for long.

Surrender is NEVER the answer. But that's what IBM did.

IBM execs betrayed their most loyal partners, users and customers, all because the media liked Bill Gates better. The media swallowed all Gates' balderdash. He knew how to manage the media and the media responded.

Come to think of it, Republican Party bigshots are doing the very same thing, aren't they? Surrendering their principles to please the media.