IBM adding PowerPC management experience to its PC operation
Jim , don't follow the industry suppliers generally , but would like to find info on who is tooling up for the PowerPC motherboards .
IBM looks like it is serious here and brought back a experienced manager Mike Braun who knows the PowerPC and related OSs:
" Braun, who previously served at IBM for 20 years, is rejoining the computer giant after leaving his current job as president and chief executive of Neuron Data, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of software programming applications.
In the mid 1990's, Braun served as chief executive of Kaleida Labs, an ill-fated joint venture between Apple and IBM that was charged with developing a common set of programming tools to work on computers built by both companies.
Previously, Braun held executive assigments at IBM in enterprise computing, mini-computer marketing, the launch of the IBM PC into corporate America, and other roles. "
biz.yahoo.com
IBM was interested in NeXT years ago and invested $100 mln , later encouraged R. Perot to add $50 mln . Interest waned after J Cannavino left and IBM stayed with OS/2 .
NeXT became AAPL's Rhapsody , will be out soon as "OS X Server" , and it seems like Mr Braun has been there before with Kaleida .
Just interesting .
Regards,
Jim K.
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