The future of MicroSoft

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

    Epeidh eqw dei polla mhnumata peri MicroSoft eipa na
sas grayw kai egw kati. Sto teuqos Maiou 1998 tou 
"Communications of the ACM" o Robert L. Glass sthn sthlh
"Practical Programmer" eqei ena endiaferon arjro me jema:
"Everything Old Is New Again". Sthrizomenos sthn alhjeia ths
protashs "everything old is new again" sugkrinei thn periptwhs
ths MicroSoft shmera me auth ths IBM 30 prin. Parathrei oti
uparqoun orismenes omoiothtes:

(1) Technologists who knew IBM products were price-performance inferior
hated the position their managers took, and transferred that hatred to
IBM (sound familiar?).
(2) And IBM's competion, increasingly frozen out of the marketplace,
complained bitterly about IBM's marketing approach and dominance (sound
familiar?).
(3) The words "antitrust violation" became increasingly used to
describe IBM's activities (sound familiar?), and eventually the U. S.
Department of Justice was brought in to try to cut IBM down to size
(sound familiar?).

H suneqeia einai oti oi dikes eginan, h IBM epibiwse alla eqasa kai thn
aiglh alla kai thn prwtokajedria ths. Oson afora th MicroSoft to
endiaferon stoiqeio ths einai to idio to afentiko ths. Parolou pou oi
diafores jewreies diaqeirishs (managemnet theories) suneigoroun sto oti h
MicroSoft ja ta kataferei, h Istoria apo thn allah didaskei oti telika
auth ja skontayei akribws opws kai h IBM. 

A.S.

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*Apostolos Syropoulos                                          *
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