CompuServe Messages

Larry, Getting "locked into" the software is a factor in IBM's success with the large corporations, but their instinct for what we used to call "office politics" has a lot to do with it. Anyone who has worked for a really big company can tell you that people who know how to "suck up" to the boss sometimes get promoted before people with better qualifications – and that the company with the best hardware and software doesn't always get the contract. I don't have much respect for IBM's philosophy – and certainly wasn't defending them! Vic Wagner seemed to be suggesting that Commodore is regarded as a business computer company in Europe because they have the words "Business Machines" in their name. He probably didn't mean it that way, but it struck me as comical, and I couldn't resist. Vince