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To: MonroeDNA
How about the IBM AS/400? It is a GREAT system, but nobody likes it because they perceive it as being "closed" and "proprietary."
8 posted on 01/13/2003 3:17:52 PM PST by rudy45
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To: rudy45
Proprietary systems always lose in the end.

Their creative geniouses can't compete with an entire world full of geniouses. They get frustrated, and always build a better mousetrap.

Here's one for ya:

Netscape (better) v. Internet Explorer.
14 posted on 01/13/2003 3:20:17 PM PST by MonroeDNA (What's the frequency, Kenneth?)
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To: rudy45
That must be why IBM is selling a ton of them running virtual copies of Linux.
33 posted on 01/13/2003 3:28:55 PM PST by Karsus (Google is you friend :->)
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