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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (209741)	11/1/2004 1:17:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 1578097

It is also true that monopolies tend to become uncompetitive and whither on their own. Many monopolies stick around way too long. IBM is an interesting case because it recognized the danger of monopoly. While things have changed up somewhat since the days of Watson, for many years IBM would fund competing initiatives for the same product space, usually promoted from different cities. Eventually one would be folded into the other, but the "loser" would usually get the chance to innovate again while the "winner" became a profit center. Even then, the mainframe profit center could out-compete the newly innovated PC for corporate influence. TP