On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: >> IBM hasn't been stopped as far as I can see. In fact, they still sell > > Are you serious? How many IBM computers are in your organisation? We recently got rid of the IBM SP supercomputer that ran AIX. We have a Netfinity cluster, Power4 and now we have a BladeCenter: http://www.msi.umn.edu/ I don't work at MSI but I use their computers all the time. >> mainframes. They were first to develop a widely-adopted desktop >> computer design. They are currently big Linux advocates. I don't >> think IBM was ever as dominant in computing as Microsoft has been in >> desktop OS software > > `Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM'? Maybe you read the NY Times article about IBM's continuing mainframe business. That surprised me too. That's all I'm saying - these giants die very slowly. Microsoft has 90% of the desktop OS market worldwide. People say they are dying, but how long will it take to get them down to 10% of the world market? If a company has 10% of the desktops in the world, I sure wouldn't call them dead. I hope that I live another 50 years, but I think Microsoft is very likely to outlive me. Mike