Kevin, John – Don't salivate too much. I believe IBM owns a fair amount of
both Microsoft and Intel. They are not into cutting off toes. And
remember, Excel, MSWord etc that run on both platforms. There may be
other plans for MS in the IBM/Apple agreements.
wmc
Wayne – I thought that IBM sold off all of their Intel stock a year or so
ago. (?)
Personally, I think IBM just likes to collect UIs <grin>. NeXTStep, etc. I
suppose by having so many agreements, they can more easily keep track of
what potential competition is up to 🙂
As for Microsoft… I wouldn't mourn a bit if ten years from now, no one
knew who they "were". Well, okay, maybe a little bit… but only because
I have so many friends who work there. cheers – kev
RE: "I believe IBM owns a fair amount of both Microsoft and Intel. They
are not into cutting off toes."
Don't allow that argument to lull you into too much assuredness, Wayne.
Apple owned almost half of Adobe when it decided to beat on it. Of course,
one of the first things Apple did was sell tons of Adobe stock.
For what it's worth department, —GeM