16 Nov
2019
16 Nov
'19
5:47 a.m.
On 11/15/2019 6:19 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
As I understand it from my IBM friends that were there
at the time was
that IBM was concerned that the justice dept would go after them. The
amount of business Amdahl bleed off was small compared to what IBM was
making, so I suspect that it played into any business decisions.
Now I understand ;) I was so isolated from IBM in my early life, that I
didn't really get involved with them until the early 2000's. That was on
RS-6000's and AIX on the hardware side, and then IBM outsourcing on the
system administration side at one of my Fortune 100 customers.
They were still the elephant in the room, but they didn't seem as
predatory as I had heard.
art k.