Re: A new lease on life: (WAS: Requiem for OpenDoc)

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From: John Summerfield
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00

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In <5gnuil$1hb4$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, baxte17@ibm.net (Kevin J Baxter) writes:



]IBM suffers from a lack of software vision and focus.  It has no software
]strategy.  IBM's software effort is like a rudderless ship.

]$70 billion.  That's a lot of *HARDWARE* money!

Some years ago the Department of Social Security (Australia) reequipped:
Amdahl   supplied the CPUs and Front End Processors
Stotech  supplied the disk drives, tapes and (I think) printers
Wang     supplied the network hardware/software
IBM      suppied most of the mainframe software.
I forget who supplied M204 (the DBMS)
There was Netmaster from Software Developments and assorted other 
    relatively minor software suppliers.
    
A panel of 13 supplied services.

IBM was comfortably fourth from this in revenue despite Amdahl providing 
    most of the on-site support for MVS. IBM supplied absolutely no 
    hardware.

Pretty surprising for a hardware company, no?

PS This was, at the time, the largest ever ADP purchase in Australia.

Cheers
John Summerfield
Warped & Connected
Perth, Western Australia
OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer/
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Date: 1997/04/08
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