Re: database market share 2003

"Mark A" <ma_at_switchboard.net> wrote in message news:<Skiyc.19$bI1.15719_at_news.uswest.net>...
> > > When IBM mainframes (or plug compatibles) already have 90% penetration
> in
> > > the Fortune 500 (in terms of accounts), how many new accounts are you
> > > expecting?
> >
> > None. It's called a monopoly. Something Reaganomics favored.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
>
> IBM became a monopoly on the mainframe platform long before Reagan was
> president. Their biggest growth period was the 1960's and 1970's when there
> were quite a few Democratic presidents, and when Democrats completely
> controlled the House of Representatives, and usually controlled the Senate.

The 1956 consent decree, which all the subsequent market opening derived from because it required IBM to sell, rather than lease, was under Eisenhower. The biggest growth happened in spite of the monopoly breakdown, because of trust formation, which Johnson famously busted, and IBM being able to come up with far more capital than competitors, both for technological standardization and sales force mobilization.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/4/83.04.06.x.html http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/amdahl_09052001/

jg

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