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

[Tony Anton]

Esther Schindler wrote:
> 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.
>   
What was it about, Esther?
> 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.
>>     
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