Re: My Migrations



"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 3, 8:23 am, "tlmfru" <la...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Pete Dashwood <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message


IBM was found guilty of monopolistic practices, but the appeals
dragged on, and with a change of administration in the US the charges were
dropped, by order!

Not quite. They were split into several divisions and were banned from
pre-announcing products. Basically as soon as a competitor announced
they had a product IBM would do a me-too announcement just to get the
customers to wait to see rather than buy the one that was available.

IBM were restricted by being required to ship within 3 months of
announcement. This was used by MS over an OS/2 release. IBM were
entitled to use any _released_ version of Windows. They had pre-
releases of Win3.11 which they incorporated into OS/2 WARP. The plan
was to ship WARP as soon as Win3.11 shipped. MS simply held up 3.11
shipping until the 3 months were up and IBM _had_ to ship. They had to
go back to only Win3.1 for WARP, then 3.11 was shipped.

MS pre-announce vapourware all the time. I had related already how
they saw the GEM demo then announced 'Windows' and took 2 years to
write it.

Google has recently made some news with 'Cloud Computing'. MS has
announced 'Windows Cloud' just so that people will stop and wait to
see what the MS product is like. Actually they probably don't have
anything yet but will put something together over the next few months,
as long as people will still hang onto their tails instead of buying
into a non-MS product.

Windows 7 was announced just so that those that didn't want Vista
would wait around for another year or so in the hope that MS may
actually develop something better.

that would be sold to the customer; nor would they guarantee that the
machine they delivered would actually do the job: none of their customers
objected, or, it seemed, even noticed.

I recall one proposal where IBM stated that their machine would run
the accounting system and could run the production system and could do
some other stuff. It was sized too small and was cheaper. The customer
bought it and found that a machine twice the size was required. IBM
answered that its proposal stated it could do any [one] of these
things. The customer was mistaken in thinking it said it do them all
at once.

What monopolies do is subtle, if they are clever: innovation appears to be
flourishing, but it's within certain limits, which may not be readily
perceptible.

MS claim innovation all the time, yet they are usually a couple of
years behind what the leading edge is actually doing.

The first edition of 'The Road Ahead' made no mention of the internet.
While OS/2, Netscape, and IBM were giving access to the internet MS
ignored it. Later Win95 tried to avoid the internet by offering MSN
(the original) which was Win95 only and did not allow access to the
internet. They had to dump this and Win95 OSR2 had IE. Nowadays the
general public think that MS invented the internet and Bill Gates
wrote it himself.

PECD probably believes that too.

[Pete]
Who knows what he believes. He changes his mind every five minutes...:-)

However he WAS using the internet with CompuServe, the first public ISP, and
is still with them to this day, and he DID build a website in 1995 when the
internet had 16,000,000 users as opposed to today's estimated billion.

What were you doing then, Richard? :-)

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."

Pete


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