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To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (83379)	11/7/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: Tom Kearney	Respond to of 164684

Olu, IBM's problem has always been their disasterous success at mainframes. They've shot themselves in the foot a zillion times, because all they've every REALLY wanted to sell was big iron. The IBM anit-trust suit had nothing to do with the rise of Perot's EDS (a business IBM rejected in the mid 60s), Noyce's invention of the IC which led to Intel and TI, the sucess of the PDP-11 and then VAX, unix, etc. which started the erosion from below, leading to Apple, CPQ, then DELL. IBM gave MSFT the early PC software business because they thought it was probably worthless, and didn't want to spend too much time with it.