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Scenting extinction.

Contends that, by clinging to its mainframe business and the ways of selling computers that went with it, IBM has jeopardized its future. How Chairman John Akers is trying to move away from mainframes; View of analysts that swift changes are needed; Passage of the age of mainframe computing; Mistru...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 321; no. 7737; pp. 69 - 71
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/14/1991
Subjects:
International Business Machines Corp.
Mainframe computers
Computers
Client/server computing
Computer selling
Cost effectiveness
Akers, John F., 1934-2014
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Contends that, by clinging to its mainframe business and the ways of selling computers that went with it, IBM has jeopardized its future. How Chairman John Akers is trying to move away from mainframes; View of analysts that swift changes are needed; Passage of the age of mainframe computing; Mistrust; Reliance on cost-cutting.