IBM had a big cutting of heads last week.
It all started to go bad for IBM when they pushed OS2 and decided they could make $$$ as a Service Company.
Many hardware companies have collapsed by trying to tell customers that it was their way or the highway.
Sun Microsystems for one.
MIPS for another.
Apple nearly died following IBM’s lead on PowerBS.
The latest stuff IBM is building is very good but I fear it is way too late.
“Many hardware companies have collapsed by trying to tell customers that it was their way or the highway.
Sun Microsystems for one.
MIPS for another”
don’t forget DEC! the quintessential “my hardware, my way, or the highway” computer company. And, boy did they go down the highway!
a microexample was NBI, the word processor company out of Boulder, which death-spiralled down the proprietary hardware highway, when every employee in the company (and all of their customers) knew that they had to abandon their proprietary hardware and convert their word processing software to work on the IBM-compatible PC ...