He’s basically updating the “Apple buys NeXT” story from the mid-90s.
Apple was
much bigger and better known, but was having some financial woes after
some
management mis-steps. Within a couple of years, nearly every Apple exec
was
gone, replaced by people from NeXT. The Mac OS was replaced by NeXTSTEP, which was re-christened as OS X.
Wasn't one of those people at NeXT Steve Jobs? It's much easier to transform the culture when you were instrumental in originally establishing it.
Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-)
It could, but it seems unlikely that a culture as entrenched as the one at IBM will suddenly flip, for better or worse. I would imagine that mainframe salespeople will still be in their blue suits when pushing big iron to other corporate behemoths.
-Jerry
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