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To: MeanWestTexan

IBM went to OS2, and MS stomped em.

47 posted on 12/01/2004 8:35:56 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

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To: lepton

OS2 was after IBM ceased to be a monopoly.

By the time 0S2 came around, the montra changed from "No one gets fired for buying IBM" to "No one gets fired for buying Microsoft."

It's all about risk-aversion, not marketing.

48 posted on 12/01/2004 8:48:38 AM PST by MeanWestTexan

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