On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ken Stephens wrote:
Check out Cringely's article on IBM and Red Hat. https://www.cringely.com/
In the 1980s I was told by IBMers that the company acknowledged it was not a technology company but a service company. Because IBM put engineers at mainframe client sites to oversee the big iron they gained new customers. Their technical staff knew the IMB hardware/software was behind what other vendors put out, but as Cringely explains, IBM was built on its sales force and that's what allowed it to survice. As an aside, I see the push for everyone to put all their data as drizzle in someone's cloud is a return to the centralized mainframe environment but much less secure. Feh! Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
