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- From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.190528.5764@siia.mv.com>
- Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> <10520030@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 19:05:28 GMT
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- In <10520030@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
-
- >> From the 1990 Almanac (I wish I had a later one)
- >> Sales in Millions:
- >> IBM - 59,681
- >> Apple - 4,071
- >>
- >> As you can see by the sales, Apple has very little to do with the
- >> success of IBM.
- >>
-
- >Unless $2G of Apple sales cannibalized $20G of IBM sales (warning, this
- >is only an example, repeat, an example) to accomplish the same amount of
- >real work (read: satisfy same amount of market needs)
-
- >After all, one model for the disappearance of big expensive dinosaurs is
- >that cheap little mammals caused them to starve by eating their lunches.
-
- And another is that the dinosaurs got wiped out by the meteor
- impact called "open systems", which had nothing to do with
- cheap little, proprietary mammals.
-
- David Dick
- Software Innovations, Inc.
- [the Software Moving Company; converting software to UNIX for over a decade]
-