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Part 4 “I Don’t Want to Burst Your Bubble…The Rise and Fall of the Internet’s First Generation” “I wish I was born ten years sooner” – Children of the 1980s Last week we discussed the return of IBM as the dominant force in computing with the IBM PC. We also analyzed the precursor to the modern PC the Programma 101 from Olivetti which kicked off the PC era 20 years before […]
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Part 3 “The Phoenix Rises Again, how IBM Biting Apple made it Personal” “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” – Steve Jobs We left off last week with an analysis of the rise and fall of IBM’s 3rd generation mainframe the system/360. IBM became the gold standard of 1960s computing with early innovation in customizable software, marketing toward business impact, and the earliest ancestor of cloud computing. Once the decade ended IBM’s […]
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Part 2: How IBM’s 3rd generation never came back from the moon…. “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster”. – Elon Musk This past Wednesday we took a look at how the cloud and Amazon’s innovations has separated the new disruptive forces of today’s IT away from the Old-Guard OEMs (OGOs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) of yesteryear. It has become clear […]
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Our ongoing series “How to stay ahead in an world of disruptive innovation” will analyze the past 50 years of IT disruption and innovation as the history is the best indicator of how things will move in the future. Today’s part 1 analyzes how a Seattle Bookstore’s cloud washed away the human network. Part 1: Learn how to swim before the rain clouds wash you away….. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader […]
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