The Custer connection.
Focuses on the decision of IBM's chairman, Lou Gerstner, to shift his company's focus away from mainframes. Final attempt to salvage the product line that made Big Blue big; IBM's new System/390 mainframes which are based on `parallel-processing' technology; IBM's `coupling technology'; Decision of...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 331; no. 7858; pp. 69 - 71 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
4/9/1994
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Focuses on the decision of IBM's chairman, Lou Gerstner, to shift his company's focus away from mainframes. Final attempt to salvage the product line that made Big Blue big; IBM's new System/390 mainframes which are based on `parallel-processing' technology; IBM's `coupling technology'; Decision of some of IBM's key mainframe customers to stick with IBM's mainframe rather than trading it in for server-based networks or minicomputers; Hope of Gerstner. |
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