Who's going to the meeting?
I'm going to the meeting and I will ask these key questions:
1. Why couldn't OS/2 compete. Why didn't poor little IBM do a better job marketing OS/2? Why didn't IBM temporarily give it away to the PC manufactures to jump start support? Should MSFT be responsible for IBM's ineptitude?
2. Why didn't Apple offer to license their OS.
3. Why didn't SUNW offer a product for the PC. Oh yeah, I forgot, SUNW was too busy denouncing the PC as a fad.
4. The Internet provided another opportunity to break MSFT's stronghold. Why did AOL choose to use MSFT browser instead of NSCP? Why didn't IBM, SUNW, AOL, CPQ, form a consortium and rally behind NSCP? Oh yeah, SUNW and AOL did show an interest in NSCP, but only after it was on its deathbed. Too little, too late.
I could ask many more questions, but I think you guys get the picture.
SUNW, IBM, AAPL, AOL, CPQ, etc... they need to accept responsibility for their own inactions, and making MSFT a scapegoat is not what I call accepting responsibility. |
