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Originally Posted by murg
Back then, the mindset at IBM was that they were a hardware shop, the software was a means to sell hardware.
So they really didn't understand the new software centric model. Of course, at that time, the PC hardware was just starting to become commoditised.
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That plus, at the time IBM was a huge corporate conglomerate with all the bureaucratic inertia that that implied. MS was virtually a small business in comparison, with the boardroom being made up of the founding geeks, with an intimate understanding of IT rather than business administration.