Re: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And here's ANOTHER one...

From a note in Network World 9/6/99, page 84 "IBM'S NHD: RIP" box...
by Michael Cooney about IBM's Network Hardware Division biting the dust and WHO
is a big reason why...

"Ellen Hancock headed the Networking Hardware and Networking Software division
until 1995. Sources say that overtures were made during here tenure to have IBM
buy then-upstart Cisco. Hancock refused"

I KNOW it could be considered hindsight by some, but come on...

Chuck

Joel Fritz wrote:

> I agree that the micro channel architecture was pretty cool.  The point I
> was trying to make was that IBM frequently has a lack of communication
> between the right and left hands.  IBM isn't quite like Atari and Commodore,
> who both had superior technology in the late 80s and dis-marketed themselves
> into oblivion, but I think there's a parallel.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:17 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347
> >
> >
> > >At COMMON in '95 (spring) I went to a presentation on how to choose a
> > >network server.  It was presented by a knowledgeable well
> > meaning guy from
> > >IBM.  Part of the presentation concerned the superiority of the micro
> > >channel architecture over EISA and ISA.  '95 was the year
> > that IBM dropped
> > >the PS/2 line.
> >
> >
> > Well, it was a true statement--  PS/2 -was- a better architecture.
> >
> > The fact that they were about to hand it over to the boat
> > anchor department
> > has nothing to do with the truth of the statement.
> >
> > Of course, IBM tied the PS/2 architecture up in so many
> > licensing knots
> > that  no one was making cards for it, which left IBM to
> > charge mainframe
> > prices for a piece of a PC>
> >
> > --Paul E Musselman
> > PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> >
> >
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