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PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them. In some cases, the wheels come off…
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Regulating the Land that Moore’s Law Forgot
And so we come full circle: “IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market”. Out of the limelight, IBM has spent significant time and money lobbying various governments to hobble competitors in the last fifteen years, all the while maintaining the biggest monopoly in technology with the mainframe. Now the antitrust spotlight returns to…
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IBM Threatens to Take Bat and Ball, Go Home
It isn’t often I have occasion to praise IBM, but they deserve kudos for at least threatening to pull out of formal standards bodies and openly questioning their once-beloved “standards process”: International Business Machines Corp. will review its membership in the bodies that set common standards for the technology industry and may withdraw from some,…