You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I want to take IBM back to its roots.
IBM has a very solid business image.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.
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