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From: lron@easy.hiam (Dwight Hubbard)
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Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
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Date: 9 Jan 91 02:30:45 GMT
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In article <41220@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, Marc Barrett writes:

>    As for IBM, the mainframe market is totally dominated by IBM, precisely
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^
                            Really, that's why they laid off all those
                            personel that were on the production line
                            for the 3090, give me a break IBM has been
                            loosing ground in the mainframe market for
                            quite a while.  Why would a company buy an
                            IBM mainframe when they can get a machine
                            that's compatible with the IBM machine but
                            faster, cost less and backed buy a well
                            established company???

> because IBM spends quite a lot on R&D.  IBM is one of the few U.S.

The amount of money spent does not equate directly to the results,
any company that would throw a fortune into developing a new OS for
their PC systems when they could have obtained the rights to an OS that
would do the same basic things is obviously not wisely spending their
R&D $$$ wisely.

> ALL research at Commodore is very short-term, precisely because
> Commodore's managers are more worried about short-term profits then
> long-term strength.

Really, and how do you know what R&D projects are going on at Commodore??
or IBM or any other company.
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