[tde-users] Re: This won't sadden OS/2 lovers, some of whom are here

said Mike Bird via tde-users:

| I think The Register is being a little unfair. Akers had already | crippled IBM before Gerstner took over in '93. And Akers problem | was that he had done nothing to change IBM as the world changed.

You have a point, but Gerstner took IBM out of the PC business and had it stop doing many interesting things. I'm not sure that he was at all interested in IBM's products, any more than he was especially interested in cigarettes or cookies or travelers cheques.