[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Scott Dorsey]

 <lists at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
>I don't know what IBM is doing and I don't believe that statement. It seems
>to me some people who really don't understand what IBM has traditionally
>been about, or perhaps they understand and don't care, are making some
>decisions that are going to come back to haunt them in the not too distant
>future. IBM has always been a hardware company at the core. They write some
>damn good software and provide services but that's to sell hardware.

Do you mean the company that had ads in Datamation saying "IBM isn't a
computer company-- We sell solutions!" by any chance?

IBM traditionally has been a support operation that sells hardware so they
can support it.  That's how they wind up trying to compete with the Vax
with the AS/400....
--scott
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