Jeff, Eric is really a waste of time. Take his mention about IBM surviving.
Well I was there, I noticed that he did not mention the companies that did
not survive or are now shadows of themselves.

When was the last time you saw a Honeywell computer, RAND, ICL, RCA (yes they
tried to enter the market), even Digital and Data General are rare to see
these days.

IBM infact is a prefect example, the PC division had nothing to do with the
main company but as the market grew so did it. At it's peak IBM's PC
division controlled over 50% of the PC market but since it got so big the
main company rolled it backing to old big mainframe division and started to
make changes (remember the PCjr anybody?) today IBM controls about 20% of the
PC market, is smaller than Dell's share and until the stupid merger between
Compaq and HP was on it's way to being smaller then Compaq's PC section.

And IBM is one of the better survivers of the Mainframe - PC wars, basicly
because they can supply both and everything inbetween.

If the same happen to the space industry, it is unlikely that more than one
of the big aerospace companies can survive the turn over.

Earl Colby pottinger

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