[Discussion] Hey, someone ought to fill in the blanks at Wikipedia

[Esther Schindler]

I was there, John. I had breakfast with the people who made the  
decision, the day after it was announced.

It wasn't about Microsoft.

On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:17 PM, John Sandercock wrote:

>  I'm not sure this sentence tells the whole story.
>
> <quote>However, IBM made a monumental error of judgment and timing
> when the IBM Marketing Director over the Grass Roots Marketing
> Department made the decision to meet his headcount cut targets by
> eliminating the entire department - one week before the 1995 Fall
> Comdex. </quote>
>
> OTOH, the article is about Team OS/2 and not about the illegal
> competition in the OS market in the mid-1990's that might have induced
> IBM to make such a decision.