And it will ever be so. IBM did the opposite of Kodak and thrived.
Yet Lotus Notes exists.
Yep. And I didn’t mean to use OS/2 as a shot against IBM because the evaluated their strategic alternatives and made a conscious decision not to go head-to-head with Microsoft in the operating systme realm and instead started to build up their integrated services business. IBM is a great example of a company that has successfully re-invented itself many times And that decision also freed them up to be one of the first major adopters of Linux, and about 15 years ago they announced they would be investing over $1 billion in Linux development, and has since doubled that amount.
Also the started IBM consulting and outsourced almost 90% jobs to india.