Murray Lesser excerpted this from Joe Kovacs (dated 1999-04-18).

JK>Home users buy a pure piece of hardware, with no concept of service. 
  >They don't have payroll to get out, nor letters they _must write, and
  >can't use service.  IBM sells nothing that home users can use, they
  >never have, they never will, and they understand this full well.

Well, let's say that about "IBM Service", if there's such a company.
Another company, "IBM PC" (if there's such a company...) sells micro
computers (IBM Aptiva) to home users . They have a clean, smart look,
just opposite to designs with plastic bulges so common now to
"please" home buyers. Of course, the Aptivas are available with Win
only (AFAIK). I don't know how long this will go on, because "IBM
corp" (if...) seemed dubious about the PC market. At least, "IBM
components" (if...) is still ahead in many fields and manage to
produce massive lots of advanced components. This company (?)
recently signed a deal with Dell: Dell will be the Nø1 buyer to "IBM
components" (with what privileges?).

   That's how I see IBM now : a bunch of independant companies with
the same name.

      L.A.

  
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